- East Cree language
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East Cree Īyiyū Ayimūn (N), Īnū Ayimūn (S) Spoken in Canada Region Quebec Native speakers 12,600 (1997) Language family Language codes ISO 639-3 either:
crl – Northern
crj – SouthernLinguasphere 62-ADA-af (northern)
62-ADA-ag (southern)East Cree, also known as James Bay Cree, Eastern James Bay Cree, and East Main Cree, is an Algonquian language spoken in Quebec, Canada on the east coast of lower Hudson Bay and James Bay, and inland southeastward from James Bay. Two dialects are usually described, Īyiyū Ayimūn (Northern/Coastal) and Īnū Ayimūn (Southern/Inland), which are easily intelligible. The Cree long vowels *ē and *ā have merged in the northern coastal dialect but remain distinct in the southern coastal and southern inland dialects; southern inland has merged *s and *š, which remain distinct in the coastal dialects. Neighboring Naskapi has both.
External links
- Terry, Kevin. Thesis. The Emergence of Intransitive Verb Inflection in Northern East Cree: A Case Study. Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. Johns, Newfoundland: December 2009).
- Dyck, Carrie, Julie Brittain, Marguerite MacKenzie. "Northern East Cree Accent" in Proceedings of the 2006 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Categories:- Cree language
- Central Algonquian languages
- Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
- First Nations languages in Canada
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
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