Assiniboine and Stoney.

[cstelfer at ucalgary.ca]

> -And a dictionary or two wouldn't go amiss either.  I'm especially
> interested in the impact that Cree has had on Stoney.
>
> Anthony

I responded to this comment earlier by saying that I didn't think Cree had
had any impact on Stoney, however, I forgot that the Paul Band reserves
are mixed with both Cree and Stoney people.  Unfortunately to my knowledge
Stoney is not really spoken there anymore, which is not surprising
considering the linguistic pressures exerted by both English and Cree.
The Northern Stoney data I have is from the Alexis Band, so it has no Cree
influence.  If there was any Cree influence on the Paul Band dialect of
Stoney, I think it would be quite hard to detect it at this point in time.

Corey.




>
>>>> rankin at ku.edu 25/01/2005 16:01:39 >>>
>> I was talking with John Newman at Edmonton in October
>> and he felt that the two major Stoney dialect clusters
>> might be different in this regard.
>
>> I guess I should always distinguish between South Stoney (Morley,
> Eden
> Valley and Big Horn reserves) and North Stoney (Alexis and Paul bands).
>
> The South Stoneys have apparently lost the glottalized set of stops
> and
> collapsed them with the aspirated series, but the Northern group have
> not.
>
> And the South group has those neat pharyngeals. . . .
>
> Newman said the two groups migrated to their current locations in
> southern and central Alberta via very different routes, suggesting
> some
> significant time depth between the dialects.  Gee, a coupla good
> reference grammars would be a good thing!  :-)      Bob
>
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