• Source: Gros Ventre language

Atsina, or Gros Ventre (also known as Aaniiih, Ananin, Ahahnelin, Ahe, A’ani, and ʔɔʔɔɔɔniiih), is the ancestral language of the Gros Ventre people of what is today Montana, United States of America. The last fluent speaker died in 2007, though revitalization efforts are underway.




History


Atsina is the name applied by specialists in Algonquian linguistics. Arapaho and Atsina are dialects of a common language usually designated by scholars as "Arapaho-Atsina". Historically, this language had five dialects, and on occasion specialists add a third dialect name to the label, resulting in the designation, "Arapaho-Atsina-Nawathinehena". Compared with Arapaho proper, Gros Ventre had three additional phonemes /tʲ/, /ts/, /kʲ/, and /bʲ/, and lacked the velar fricative /x/.
Theresa Lamebull taught the language at Fort Belknap College (now Aaniiih Nakoda College), and helped develop a dictionary using the Phraselator when she was 109.
As of 2012, the White Clay Immersion School at Aaniiih Nakoda College was teaching the language to 26 students, up from 11 students in 2006.




Phonology






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References


Mithun, Marianne (1999). The languages of native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521298759.




Further reading


Malainey, Mary E. (2005). "The Gros Ventre/Fall Indians in historical and archaeological interpretation" (PDF). The Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 25 (1). Brandon, MB: Brandon University: 155–183. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
Capriccioso, Rob (9 October 2007). "The Phraselator II". The American Magazine. American Enterprise Institute. Archived from the original on 7 August 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
Hays Public School; Lodge Pole Public School (1980). A Basic Guide in Tri-Lingual Education in Gros Ventre and Assiniboine (PDF). Hays, MT: United States Department of Education. ERIC ED324172. Retrieved 23 July 2022.




External links


Native Languages of the Americas: Gros Ventre (Ahe, Ahahnelin, Aane, Atsina)
Gros Ventre Language Word Sets, Fort Belknap College
Gros Ventre Dictionary
OLAC Record entry for Gros Ventre

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bahasa Gros Ventre
• Rumpun bahasa Arapahoa
• Bahasa di Amerika Serikat
• Gros Ventre language
• Gros Ventre
• Gros Ventre (disambiguation)
• Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
• Theresa Lamebull
• Big Sandy Creek (Montana)
• Arrow Creek (Fergus County, Montana)
• Belt Creek (Montana)
• Algonquian languages
• Indigenous languages of Montana