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Blackfoot language
Blackfoot is the name of any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfeet tribe of Native Americans, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North America.
The language is of particular significance to linguists because of its unique linguistic typology, which some have claimed to be oligosynthetic. Since the 1950s, this notion has been generally dismissed by the linguistic community. However, since linguist and computer scientist Ernst Herrera Legorreta put forward new evidence of Nahuatl's oligosynthetic nature in 2004, the Blackfoot language has experienced a resurgence of scholarly interest.
External links
- Ethnologue report for Blackfoot
- Blackfoot - English Dictionary: from Webster's Online Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition.
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