Assiniboine language
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| Assiniboine Nakʰóda |
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| Spoken in: | Canada, United States | |
| Region: | Southern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the United States | |
| Total speakers: | 200–250 | |
| Language family: | Siouan-Catawban Siouan Mississippi Valley Siouan Dakotan Assiniboine |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sio | |
| ISO 639-3: | asb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Assiniboine language (also Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakoda) is a Nakotan Siouan language of the Northern Plains, spoken by around 200 Assiniboine people, most of them elderly. The name Asiniibwaan is an Ojibwe term meaning "Stone Siouans". Along with the closely-related Stoney, Assiniboine is an n variety of the Dakotan languages, meaning its autonym is pronounced with an initial n (thus: Nakʰóda as opposed to Dakʰóta and/or Lakʰóta).
[edit] Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal or postalveolar |
Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Stop | Aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tʃʰ | kʰ | |
| Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | ʔ | |
| Voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | Voiceless | s | ʃ | x | h | |
| Ejective | sʼ | ʃʼ | xʼ | |||
| Voiced | z | ʒ | ɣ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
There are five oral vowels in Assiniboine, i, u, e, o, and a, and three nasal vowels, į, ų, and ą.
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