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North America
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Native Speakers Worldwide

<150

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Older adult speakers

None under 40 and most elderly.

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Ethnic Population

3,500

Non-monolingual speakers

On the Saskatchewan reserves Cree is widely spoken and many of the Assiniboine speakers are fluent in it.

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Dakotan is a Siouan dialect complex, with three well defined dialect areas: Stoney, currently spoken in southwestern Alberta; Assinibone, in southern Saskatchewan and northern Montana; and Sioux, spoken widely in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and in southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Intelligibility between these dialect areas is low, although speakers can communicate after a while with some difficulty, and they are perhaps best considered emergent languages.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

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Montana, Saskatchewan

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Location description

Spoken on two reservations in Montana—Fort Belknap and Fort Peck—and on three reserves in Saskatchewan—Whitebear, Carry the Kettle, and Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head.

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Spoken on two reservations in Montana—Fort Belknap and Fort Peck—and on three reserves in Saskatchewan—Whitebear, Carry the Kettle, and Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

230

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

48.4466,-114.8783

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

3,500

Non-monolingual speakers

Many Assiniboine speakers on the Saskatchewan reserves are fluent in Cree

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Montana (Fort Belknap and Fort Peck reservations), Saskatchewan (Whitebear, Carry the Kettle, and Mosquito-Grizzly Bear's Head reservations)

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Other languages used

English, Cree

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Courses in Assiniboine are taught at Fort Belknap Community College.

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

48.4466,-114.8783; 50.3536,-103.4841

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

250

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

5000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

There are 250 speakers in Canada. Data for the number of speakers and the ethnic population comes from D. Parks (1997).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

USA; Canada;

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Location description

West central and southeast Saskatchewan (Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head), south Saskatchewan (part of Carry-the-Kettle and Whitebear).

Government support

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West central and southeast Saskatchewan (Mosquito-Grizzly Bear’s Head), south Saskatchewan (part of Carry-the-Kettle and Whitebear).

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Other languages used

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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

150

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

3500

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2016

Location and Context

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Canada, USA

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Other languages used

English

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Endangered

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250

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