Hidatsa | |
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hiraaciré’ | |
Native to | United States |
Region | North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota |
Ethnicity | Hidatsa |
Native speakers | <65 (2019)[1] |
Siouan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | hid |
Glottolog | hida1246 |
ELP | Hidatsa |
Linguasphere | 64-AAA-a |
![]() Hidatsa is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Hidatsa /hɪˈdɑːtsə/[2] is an endangered Siouan language that is related to the Crow language. It is spoken by the Hidatsa tribe, primarily in North Dakota and South Dakota.
A description of Hidatsa-Mandan culture, including a grammar and vocabulary of the language, was published in 1877 by Washington Matthews, a government physician who lived among the Hidatsa at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.[3]
More recently, the language has been the subject of work in the generative grammar tradition.[4]
In 2019, it was estimated that there were less than 65 fluent speakers of the language.[5]