Endangered Languages Project - Stoney

Stoney

^{[aka Stoney, Assiniboin, Stonies]}

Classification: Siouan

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Stoney, Assiniboin, Stonies, Stony, Nakoda, Alberta Assiniboine, Nakon
CLASSIFICATION		Siouan, Mississippi Valley Siouan, Dakota
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sto
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Stoney is an emergent language in the Dakotan dialect complex of Siouan. 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.

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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

Endangered

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-1,500
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,200
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Stoney is an emergent language in the Dakotan dialect complex of Siouan.

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: 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.

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-1,500
Native speakers worldwide

TRANSMISSION

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Alberta

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Alberta

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,300
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,200
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker number data: (2001 SIL). Ethnic population: (1987 SIL).

3,160 (2011 census). Ethnic population: 3,200 (Golla 2007) (2013).

TRANSMISSION

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Adults. Also use English [eng].

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

English

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Southern Alberta, west and northwest of Calgary, central Alberta, west of Edmonton, on Alexis, Paul, Bighorn, Morley, Eden Valley reserves.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,765
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Alberta

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,250
Native speakers worldwide

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51.161,-114.8533

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press