ATS ISO 639-3
Gros Ventre
A language of United States
- ISO 639
- ats
- Alternate Names
- A’ananin, Aane, Ahahnelin, Ahe, Ananin, Atsina, Fall Indians, Gros Ventres, White Clay People
- 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.
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: Montana: Fort Belknap reservation, Milk river.
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