User:Snake people, or 'sneeple'/sandbox/Assiniboine

Estimates of native speakers range from less than 50, to about 100, or more, up to 150.(glottolog, adjust citation when moving to page)

sources (for quick reference)

 * 1) Parks, D. R., & DeMallie, R. J. (1992). Sioux, Assiniboine, and Stoney dialects: A classification. Anthropological Linguistics, 233-255.
 * 2) Cumberland, L. (2005). A grammar of Assiniboine: a Siouan language of the Northern Plains. Ph.D. Thesis. Indiana University.
 * 3) Taylor, A. R. (1981). Variation in Canadian Assiniboine. Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics Newsletter. July 1981, 9-16.
 * 4) West, S. L. (2003). Subjects and objects in Assiniboine Nakoda (Doctoral dissertation, University of Victoria).

Variation
Locations of speakers and differences of speech

Phonemes
The stops (and affricates) of Assiniboine are often described as voiced rather than plain, due to intervocalic voicing rules which result in surface voiced forms. Nonetheless, these should be analyzed as plain.

Syllable Structure & Phonotactics
Syllables are primarily of CV structure. While codas are possible, they are restricted and uncommon, often becoming restructured as the onset of the following syllable. Onsets may include up to two consonants but codas must be simplex. Possible onset clusters are given in the following table (reproduced from Cumberland 2005):

Vowel Hiatus
Adjacent vowels are avoided in one of three ways:

Verbal Morphology
The verbal morphology can be somewhat idealized with the following template:

[ Root -suffix(es) -encl(s) ]

Kinship Terms
-kin terms table-

respect/avoidance