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The term Moose Cree is derived either from the toponym Môsoniy, meaning 'Moose Island' or Môso-sîpiy, meaning 'Moose River'.The former is the historical name for the summering grounds of the speakers of this dialect, but has been appropriated by the modern municipality of Moosonee, leaving the island with the official English name of Moose Factory, a name that recalls the historical ...
Moose Cree (Cree: Mōsonī or Ililiw), also known as Moosonee (Monsoni), and together with Eastern Swampy Cree, also known as Central Cree, West James Bay Cree or West Main Cree. They speak the l-dialect of the Cree language. The Moose Cree were first noted in Jesuit Relations for 1671, along the shores of James Bay and along the Moose River.
Moose Cree, which uses eastern Cree conventions, has an -sk final that is composed of -s and -k, as in ᐊᒥᔉ amisk "beaver", and final -y is written with a superscript ring, ° , rather than a superscript ya, which preserves, in a more salient form, the distinct final form otherwise found only in the west: ᐋᣁāshay "now".
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The Moose Cree final /y/ is a ring written above the previous syllabic instead of the raised /ya/: ᐋᣁ /āšay/ now. East Cree has special finals for ᒄ /kw/ and ᒽ /mw/ which are raised versions of the o-syllabics.
The word Athabaskan is an anglicized version of a Cree language name for Lake Athabasca (Moose Cree: Āðapāskāw '[where] there are reeds one after another') in Canada. Cree is one of the Algonquian languages and therefore not itself an Athabaskan language. [ 1 ]
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 ...
Moose Cree/Ililîmowin [1] 3,000 Vulnerable L-dialect of Western Cree. Munsee/Munsee Lenape/Ontario Delaware (Canada) [1] 2 Critically endangered Unami language in the United States . Naskapi/Iyuw Iyimuun [1] 1,230 Vulnerable Eastern Cree dialect that shares features with Innu. Natsilingmiutut/Netsilik [1] Vulnerable Dialect of Inuvialuktun.