Gros Ventre

plural Gros Ventres

1. A member of a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in north central Montana.

   Synonyms: A'aninin, Aaniiih, Aaniinen, Atsina, White Clay

1. Their language, an Algonquian language.

   Persons who have some knowledge of the language often talk about the language with each other; usually the conversation concerns how some particular thing was called in Gros Ventre, or how one would translate some English concept into Gros Ventre.

   1992, Allan R. Taylor, “Problems in obsolescence research”, in Nancy C. Dorian, editors, Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death, Cambridge University Press, page 171

   Synonyms: Aaniiih, Atsina, White Clay