Mandan > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Mandan
Type:
Language
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
6 (1992 M. Krauss). Ethnic population: 130 in USA (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
10
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
6
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
mhq
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Siouan-Catawban (Siouan)
Parent Subgroup:
Mandan (mann)
Brief Description:
"Mandan is a moribund Siouan language, originally spoken in a cluster of villages along the Missouri River in south central North Dakota, located between the Hidatsa villages to the north and the Arikara villages to the south. The modern Mandans are one of the Three Affiliated Tribes who share the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, the others being the Hidatsas and the Arikaras. Their primary settlement is Twin Buttes. There are fewer than ten remaining first-language speakers of Mandan, all elderly, and no fluent second-language speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Mandan
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