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Preferred term

blaSiksika  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Blackfoot, also known as Siksika (so called in ISO 639-3), Pikanii, and Blackfeet, is the Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot tribes of Native Americans, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North America. There are four dialects of Blackfoot, three of which are spoken in Alberta, Canada and one of which is spoken in the United States: Siksiká (Blackfoot), to the southeast of Calgary, AB; Kainai (Blood), spoken in Alberta between Cardston and Lethbridge; Aapátohsipikani (Northern Piegan), to the west of Fort MacLeod; and Aamsskáápipikani (Southern Piegan), in northwestern Montana.

Entry terms

  • Blackfoot language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bla

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bla

ISO 639-3 code

  • bla

Notation

  • bla

In other languages

  • siksika

    French

  • blackfoot
  • Pied-noir
  • Blackfoot-Sprache

    German

  • siksika

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • siksika

    Spanish

  • Idioma siksiká

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bla

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