Blackfoot language

Blackfoot language

language
name=Blackfoot
nativename=Siksiká (ᓱᖽᐧᖿ)
states=United States, Canada
region=Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana and Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai Reserves in southern Alberta
speakers=5,100 [Ethnologue's estimate] /
5,000 to <8,000 [ [http://people.uleth.ca/~frantz/blkft.html#EstimatedSpeakers Martin Heavyhead and Don Frantz' estimate] ]
familycolor=American
fam1=Algic
fam2=Algonquian
fam3=Plains Algonquian
iso2=bla|iso3=bla

Blackfoot (also known as Siksika [ISO 639-3] , Pikanii, Blackfeet) is the name of any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot tribe of Native Americans, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North America. Like the other Plains Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is often said to have diverged a great deal from Proto-Algonquian. It is significantly different both phonologically and, especially, lexically from the other languages in the family. [Mithun (1999:335)]

Like the other Algonquian languages, Blackfoot is typologically polysynthetic. Whorf hypothesized that it was oligosynthetic, but mainstream linguists have rejected this.

ounds

Consonants

Blackfoot has ten consonants, of which all but IPA|/ʔ/ and IPA|/x/ can be phonemically long: [http://www.native-languages.org/blackfoot_guide.htm Blackfoot Pronunciation and Spelling Guide] . Native-Languages.org. Retrieved 2007-04-10] Frantz, Don. [http://people.uleth.ca/~frantz/blsounds.html The Sounds of Blackfoot] . Retrieved 2007-04-11]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bla Ethnologue report for Blackfoot]
* [http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/blackfoot/ Blackfoot language]
* [http://people.uleth.ca/~frantz/blkft.html Don Frantz's page on the Blackfoot language]
* [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Blackfoot-english/ Blackfoot - English Dictionary] : from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org Webster's Online Dictionary] , the Rosetta Edition.

References

*cite book |last=Frantz |first=Donald G. |title=Blackfoot Grammar |origyear=1991 |year=1997 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=0-8020-7978-4
*cite book |last=Mithun |first=Marianne |authorlink=Marianne Mithun |title=The Languages of Native North America |year=1999 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-29875-X


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