Stoney language

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Stoney
Alberta Assiniboine
Nakoda
Native to Canada, United States
Region Southern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the United States
Ethnicity Nakota: Stoney
Native speakers 2,300  (2001)[1]
Language family
Siouan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sto
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The location of Stoney / Nakoda

Stoney, also called Nakoda or Alberta Assiniboine, is a Nakotan Siouan language of the Northern Plains, spoken by two thousand people in Alberta. It is closely related to and shares distinctive features with Assiniboine, though it is hardly more intelligible with it than it is with Dakota Sioux.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Stoney at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)