Assiniboine and Stoney.

[Rankin, Robert L]

> 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