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The Woods Cree language belongs to the Algic family, within the Algonquian subfamily, and the central Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language group. [6] [7] [8]Western Cree is a term used to refer to the non-palatized Cree dialects, consisting of Northern Plains Cree, Southern Plains Cree, Woods Cree, Rock Cree, Western Swampy Cree, Eastern Swampy Cree, Moose Cree, and Atikamekw.
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 ...
Woods Cree / Bush Cree or Sakāwithini(wak) ('Woods-people') or Sakā-Nīhithawīk ('Woods Cree'); including groups of Assiniboine, Iroquois, Chipewyan, Dane-zaa, Slavey, Saulteaux - forerunners of today's Alexander First Nation, [14] Whitefish Lake First Nation, [15] West Moberly First Nations, [16] Saulteau First Nations, [17] Fort Nelson ...
Woods Cree: From the Athabasca oil sands area where the holotype was collected, themselves named after the Athabasca River, ultimately from Woods Cree aðapaskāw, which means "[where] there are plants one after another", as well as Greek sauros ("lizard"). [31] [32] Attalea cohune (cohune palm) palm: Miskito
Cree language. The Cree language (also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages, [3] the mother tongue (i.e. language first learned and still understood) of approximately 96,000 people, and the ...
Cree–Montagnais (also known as Kirištino˙ or Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) Cree Plains Cree; Woods Cree; Western Swampy Cree; Eastern Swampy Cree and Moose Cree; Atikamekw (also known as Attikamek, Attikamekw, Atikamek or Tête de Boule) Montagnais–Naskapi East Cree (also known as James Bay Cree or Eastern Cree) Northern East Cree ...
All these languages descend from Proto-Algic, a second-order proto-language estimated [citation needed] to have been spoken about 7,000 years ago and reconstructed using the reconstructed Proto-Algonquian language and the Wiyot and Yurok languages. Text in Cree. Cree is the most widely spoken Algic language.
Within the Cree and Ojibwe language communities, the situation is less confident. Cree syllabics use is vigorous in most communities where it has taken root. In many dialect areas, there are now standardised syllabics spellings. Nonetheless, there are now linguistically adequate standardised Roman writing systems for most if not all dialects.