Aamsskáápipikani dialect

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The Aamsskáápipikani dialect is a regional variety of the Blackfoot language traditionally spoken by the Southern Piegan (Amskapi Piikani) people of the Blackfoot Confederacy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional variety of a language
associatedWith Blackfeet Nation
linked to: Blackfeet people
endangeredStatus endangered
ethnicGroup Amskapi Piikani
Southern Piegan
hasAlternativeName Amskapi Piikani dialect
Southern Blackfoot dialect
linked to: Blackfoot language

Southern Piegan dialect
hasAncestor Blackfoot language
Proto-Algonquian language
hasDialectOf Blackfoot language
isPartOfCulture Amskapi Piikani culture
Blackfoot cultural heritage
languageBranch Plains Algonquian languages
linked to: Plains Algonquian
languageFamily Algonquian languages
memberOf Blackfoot Confederacy
linked to: Blackfoot
partOf Blackfoot language
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
region Northern Plains
linked to: Great Plains
revitalizationStatus subject of language revitalization efforts
spokenBy Amskapi Piikani people
linked to: Kainai people

Southern Piegan people
spokenIn Montana
United States
typologicalFeature head-marking morphology
polysynthetic morphology
verb-centered grammar
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Blackfoot language hasDialect Aamsskáápipikani dialect
Kainai dialect closelyRelatedTo Aamsskáápipikani (Southern Piegan) dialect
linked to: Aamsskáápipikani dialect
Piikani dialect sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Aamsskáápipikani (Southern Piegan) dialect
linked to: Aamsskáápipikani dialect