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| Hidatsa | |
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| hiraaciré’ | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota |
| Ethnicity | Hidatsa |
Native speakers | <65 (2019)[1] |
Siouan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | hid |
| Glottolog | hida1246 |
| ELP | Hidatsa |
| Linguasphere | 64-AAA-a |
 Hidatsa is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Hidatsa /hɪˈdɑːtsə/[2] is an endangered Siouan language that is related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe, primarily in North Dakota and South Dakota.
A description of Hidatsa-Mandan culture, including a grammar and vocabulary of the language, was published in 1877 by Washington Matthews, a government physician who lived among the Hidatsa at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.[3]
More recently, the language has been the subject of work in the generative grammar tradition.[4]
In 2019, it was estimated that there were less than 65 fluent speakers of the language.[5]
- ^ Data Center States Results
- ^ Park, Indrek. 2012. A Grammar of Hidatsa. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Indiana, Bloomington.
- ^ Matthews, Washington (1877). Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians. Government Printing Office.
- ^ Matthews, G.H. (1965). Hidatsa Syntax. Mouton.
- ^ "Less than 65 people speak native languages formerly common on northern plains". 2019-08-26.