Gros Ventre

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A language of United States

ISO 639-3
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Alternate Names
A’ananin, Aane, Ahahnelin, Ahe, Ananin, Atsina, Fall Indians, Gros Ventres, White Clay People
User Population

No known L1 speakers. Last fluent speaker, Jim White Crow, died in 1981 (Mithun 1999). Less than 10 fully fluent speakers (Golla 2007). Ethnic population: 1,000 (Golla 2007).

Location

Montana: Fort Belknap reservation, Milk river.

Language Status

9 (Dormant). Language of registered tribe: Fort Belknap Indian Community of the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana.

Classification
Algic, Algonquian, Arapaho
Dialects

None known. Intelligible with Arapaho [arp].

Language Use

Shifted to English [eng].

Language Development

White Clay Immersion School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation had 26 students studying the language in 2012.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Gros Ventre