  StoneyLanguage
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Sigma KEE - StoneyLanguage
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stoney language
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The StoneyLanguage is a DakotaGroupLanguage of Canada. SIL code: STO. ISO 639-2: sio. Population: 1,000 to 1,500 speakers out of 3,200 population (1987 SIL). Region: Southern Alberta, west and northwest of Calgary, and central Alberta, west of Edmonton. Southern Stoney occupy 3 reserves represented on the Stoney Tribal Council at Morley, Alberta: Eden Valley, west of Longview, Alberta, the southern-most reserve and principally Bearspaw Band members (about 400 speakers), Morley, west of Calgary, the main administrative center of Stoney Country, with about 2,700 people of all three southern bands, the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley Bands, and the Big Horn Reserve west of Rocky Mountain House, the most northerly of the 3, with about 100 people, mostly Wesley Band. The other dialect is spoken at Paul and Alexis Bands. Alternate names: STONY, NAKODA. Dialects: SOUTHERN STONEY, NORTHERN STONEY. Comments: Dialects nearly 100% intelligible with each other. 89% lexical similarity with Assiniboine, 86% with Dakota of Manitoba, 85% with Dakota of North Dakota, 83% with Lakota. Many children prefer English. Vigorous use. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: 75% to 100%. They want provincially published school curriculum about their language, culture, and history. Bible portions 1970.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | central siouan language | Of the 16 SiouanProperLanguages, 11 closely related languages are classified as a CentralSiouanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | content bearing physical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| | dakota group language | Of the 10 MississippiValleyLanguages, four closely related languages are classified as a DakotaGroupLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | human language | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| | linguistic expression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| | mississippi valley language | Of the 11 CentralSiouanLanguages, 10 closely related languages are classified as a MississippiValleyLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | siouan language | A SiouanLanguage is any one of 17 languages, spoken in NorthAmerica, forming a distinct family of languages that are unrelated to any others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | siouan proper language | Of the 17 SiouanLanguages, 16 closely related languages are classified as a SiouanProperLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | spoken human language | A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form. |
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