Big Horn dialect

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The Big Horn dialect is a regional variety of the Stoney Nakoda (Siouan) language traditionally spoken by Indigenous communities in the Big Horn region of the Canadian Rockies.

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Label Occurrences
Big Horn dialect canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of a language
closelyRelatedTo Alexis dialect of Stoney Nakoda
Morley dialect of Stoney Nakoda
country Canada
culturallyAssociatedWith Stoney Nakoda spiritual practices
oral histories of the Big Horn region
traditional place names in the Canadian Rockies
endangeredStatus endangered
ethnicity Stoney Nakoda NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Siouan language NERFINISHED
hasGrammaticalFeature person marking on verbs
polysynthetic morphology
use of postpositions rather than prepositions
verb-centered grammar
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between oral and nasal vowels
rich system of consonant clusters
indigenousTo Western Canada NERFINISHED
languageBranch Dakotan branch
languageFamily Siouan languages
partOf Stoney Nakoda dialect continuum NERFINISHED
region Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED
spokenBy Indigenous communities of the Big Horn region
Stoney Nakoda people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Alberta NERFINISHED
Big Horn region
Canadian Rockies NERFINISHED
subdivisionOf Stoney Nakoda language NERFINISHED
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
linguistic documentation projects
usedFor ceremonial contexts
everyday communication (historically)
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Stoney Nakoda hasDialect Big Horn dialect