[4] Prior to Benson's death, Estonian linguist Indrek Park worked with him for more than two years to preserve the language as much as possible.
[6] Mandan is taught at Fort Berthold Community College along with the Hidatsa and Arikara languages.
[3] Linguist Mauricio Mixco of the University of Utah has been involved in fieldwork with remaining speakers since 1993.
[10] The language received much attention from White Americans because of the supposedly lighter skin color of the Mandan people, which they speculated was due to an ultimate European origin.
Mandan has a system of allocutive agreement and so different grammatical forms may be used that depend on the gender of the addressee.
'The English translations are not "A pot was sitting there," "A big village stood there," or "The river lay there."
Mandan, like many other North American languages, has elements of sound symbolism in its vocabulary.