Endonyms are:
• nêhiyawêwin ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ (Plains Cree)
• nīhithawīwin ᓃᐦᐃᖬᐑᐏᐣ (Woods Cree)… Mehr anzeigen

Cree is believed to have begun as a dialect of the Proto-Algonquian language spoken between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago in the original Algonquian homeland, an undetermined area thought to be near the Great … Mehr anzeigen

Doug Cuthand argues three reasons for the loss of the Cree language among many speakers over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. First, residential schools cultivated the prejudice that their language was inferio… Mehr anzeigen

The Cree dialect continuum can be divided by many criteria. Dialects spoken in northern Ontario and the southern James Bay, Lanaudière, and Mauricie regions of Quebec differentiate /ʃ/ (sh as in she) and /s/, wh… Mehr anzeigen

This table shows the possible consonant phonemes in the Cree language or one of its varieties.
In dictionaries focused on Eastern Swampy Cree, Western Swampy Cree may readily substit… Mehr anzeigen

Cree features a complex polysynthetic morphosyntax. A common grammatical feature in Cree dialects, in terms of sentence structure, is non-regulated word order. Word order is not governed by a specifi… Mehr anzeigen