Gros Ventre language

Gros Ventre language

language
name=Gros Ventre
familycolor=American
states=United States
region=Montana
speakers=10 (1977), a few semi-speakers in 2000
fam1=Algic
fam2=Algonquian
fam3=Plains Algonquian
fam4=Arapahoan
iso3=ats

Gros Ventre (also known as Atsina, Ahahnelin, Ahe, Ananin) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken in Montana. Speakers have shifted to English. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ats Ethnologue entry for Gros Ventre]
* Marianne Mithun. 1999. "The Languages of Native North America". Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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