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Cree

Aboriginal language continuum spoken in Canada

Languagenatural language macrolanguage modern languageQ33390

Also known as Cree language · cr · Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi · Kree · Iyiniu-Ayamiwin · Iyiyiu-Ayamiwin

Speakers: 10,875(2018)
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Sources
1.Stated in Ethnologue
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, 8,040(May 11, 2016)
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1.Stated in Canada 2016 Censuswww12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hlt-fst/lang/Tableau.cfm?Lang=F&T=41&Geo=01
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Subclass of: Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi
, Indigenous languages of the Americas
Script: Latin script
, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics

Overview

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Cree is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador. If considered one language, it is the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers in Canada. The only region where Cree has any official status is in the Northwest Territories, alongside eight other aboriginal languages. There, Cree is spoken mainly in Fort Smith and Hay River.

Overview

Works in this language

8 linked to Cree in Wikidata

All data

53 statements · 28% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Wikimedia language code: cr
Used by: Cree
Native label: ᐃᔨᔨᐤ ᐊᔨᒧᐎᓐ'
nēhiyawēwin
Different from: Muscogee
Country: Canada
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Sources
1.“ScriptSource - Canada”scriptsource.org/country/CARetrieved 2023-08-21
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Category for films in this language: Category:Cree-language films

On other databases

31 identifiers linking Cree across the web's reference databases

60.0000, -112.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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28%

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