Niitsipowahsin
Blackfoot; Piikani; Pikuni; Blackfeet; Siksika; Siksika Cluster; Niitsi'powahsin; ᓱᖽᐧᖿ; ブラックフット語
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Blackfoot side one
Blackfoot side two
Nizi Puhwasin Schools
A Grammar of Blackfoo
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1,350
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2019
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Most speakers live on one of the four federal reservations running along the east side of the Lewis Range of the Rocky Mountains from Gleichen, AB in the north to Heart Butte, MT in the south (Kevin McManigal as quoted in Prins, 2019)
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The Piegan Institute; The Blackfeet Reservation (US)
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2010
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48.5699,-113.0918
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3250 in Canada (Census 2011). 50 or less in US (p.c. Kipp 2009).
2015
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Canada: Alberta. US: Montana. Spoken by 4 bands.
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28,000
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2007
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Southern Alberta and northwestern Montana
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Spoken on the Blackfoot, Peigan and Blood Reserves in Alberta and on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
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Spoken on the Blackfoot, Peigan and Blood Reserves in Alberta and on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
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All of the schools on the three reserves in Canada have Blackfoot language classes, and the Blood Tribe has an extensive language program that includes immersion based instruction. In Montana, the Piegan Institute, a non-profit group, operates successful immersion schools on the Blackfeet Reservation.
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There are 4,500 in Canada (2001 census). The number of speakers is decreasing. There are few monolinguals.
2009
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USA; Canada;
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Canada: 3250 (2011 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 15,000. US: 100 (2001 I. Goddard), decreasing. Ethnic population: 1,600 (2000 census). 5,000 (2001 I. Goddard).
2016
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In Canada, 5,605 first-language speakers of Blackfoot were counted in the 1996 census, out of a total combined Band membership of over 15,000. In the United States the 1990 census counted 1,062 first-language speakers in a tribal enrollment of approximately 13,000.
2008
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Alberta, Montana
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Blackfoot, Peigan, and Blood Reserves in southern Alberta, and on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana.
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Blackfoot, Peigan, and Blood Reserves in southern Alberta, and on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana.
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1,500
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2019
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2005
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- Final vowel devoicing in BlackfootPrins, Samantha Leigh, "Final Vowel Devoicing in Blackfoot" (2019). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11363. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11363https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12428&context=etd
- Siksikáí’powahsin: Blackfoot Languagehttps://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/siksikai-powahsin-blackfoot-language
- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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