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Sam wâpam- ew see- 3SG Susan- a Susan- 3OBV Sam wâpam- ew Susan- a Sam see-3SG Susan-3OBV "Sam sees Susan." The suffix -a marks Susan as the obviative, or 'fourth' person, the person furthest away from the discourse. The Cree language has grammatical gender in a system that classifies nouns as animate or inanimate. The distribution of nouns between animate or inanimate is not phonologically ...
The Cree, or nehinaw (néhiyaw, ... Within both groups, another set of variations has arisen around the pronunciation of the Proto-Algonquian phoneme *l, ...
Swampy Cree (variously known as Maskekon, Maskegon and Omaškêkowak, and often anglicized as Omushkego) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree.It is spoken in a series of Swampy Cree communities in northern Manitoba, central northeast of Saskatchewan along the Saskatchewan River and along the Hudson Bay coast and adjacent inland areas to the south and west, and Ontario along the coast ...
Eastern Cree dialects write finals with a superscripted a-syllabic. ᒫᔅᑰᒡ /māskōc/ has two finals, ᔅ /s/ and ᒡ /c/. Other differences are placing the diacritic for labialization (/w/) before rather than after the letter—ᑖᐺ /tāpwē/ (Western Cree ᑖᐻ),—and several additional series for consonants not found in Western Cree.
Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.
A few in some regions spoke a mixed language called Michif which is composed of Plains Cree verbs and French nouns. Michif, Mechif or Métchif is a phonetic spelling of the Métis pronunciation of Métif, a variant of Métis. [93]
sipiwiyiniwak – Pronunciation: / ˌ s iː p iː ˈ w ɪ n ə w ə k / SEE-pee-WIN-nə-wək: Enoch Cree, "river Cree," referring to the Enoch Cree people; papastew – Pronunciation: / ˌ p ɑː p ə ˈ s t eɪ oʊ / PAH-pə-STAY-oh: Papaschase Cree, "woodpecker," the name of the Papaschase people, commemorating Chief Papaschase or Papastew ...
Hobbema's Alberta Grain Co. grain elevator, now at the Alberta Central Railway Museum Maskwacis (/ ˈ m ʌ s k w ə tʃ iː s /; Cree: ᒪᐢᑿᒌᐢ, maskwacîs), renamed in 2014 from Hobbema (/ h oʊ ˈ b iː m ə /), is an unincorporated community in central Alberta, Canada at intersection of Highway 2A and Highway 611, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of the City of Edmonton.