Stoney
[aka Stoney, Assiniboin, Stonies]Classification: Siouan
·endangered
Classification: Siouan
·endangered
Stoney, Assiniboin, Stonies, Stony, Nakoda, Alberta Assiniboine, Nakon |
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Siouan, Mississippi Valley Siouan, Dakota |
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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
3,200
Stoney is an emergent language in the Dakotan dialect complex of Siouan.
English
Spoken on five reserves in Alberta located along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary and Edmonton: Alexis, Paul, Bighorn, Morley, and Eden Valley. The principal community is Morley, midway between Calgary and Banff.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Alberta
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
3,200
Speaker number data: (2001 SIL). Ethnic population: (1987 SIL).
3,160 (2011 census). Ethnic population: 3,200 (Golla 2007) (2013).
Adults. Also use English [eng].
English
Southern Alberta, west and northwest of Calgary, central Alberta, west of Edmonton, on Alexis, Paul, Bighorn, Morley, Eden Valley reserves.