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Today, together with the "n-Cree" dialect-speaking Woodland Cree, those who live in the Lowlands and Uplands who speak the "n-Cree" dialect are called "Swampy Cree", [6] but culturally Moose Cree (the Cree speaking the "l-dialect") [7] and other peoples of the Upland including the Oji-Cree occasionally self-identify as being "Swampy Cree".
Swampy Cree (variously known as Maskekon, Maskegon and Omaškêkowak, and often anglicized as Omushkego) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree.It is spoken in a series of Swampy Cree communities in northern Manitoba, central northeast of Saskatchewan along the Saskatchewan River and along the Hudson Bay coast and adjacent inland areas to the south and west, and Ontario along the coast ...
Together with the Eastern Swampy Cree, also known as "West Main Cree," "Central Cree," or "West Shore Cree." In Swampy Cree-influenced areas, some speakers use n instead of l, e.g., upland Moose Cree iniliw v. lowland Moose Cree ililiw: 'human'. Kesagami Lake Cree was an r dialect but has transitioned and merged with l dialect of Moose Cree. l
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.
Bible translations into Cree can be subdivided by dialect of the Cree language.The main dialects are Plains Cree language, Woods Cree language, Swampy Cree language, Moose Cree language, Northern East Cree language, Southern East Cree language, Kawawachikamach, Atikamekw language and the Montagnais language (Western Innu and Eastern Innu).
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 language most often ...
A proof from freshly made Cree typeface. Cree syllabics are the versions of Canadian Aboriginal syllabics used to write Cree dialects, including the original syllabics system created for Cree and Ojibwe. There are two main varieties of syllabics for Cree: Western Cree syllabics and Eastern Cree syllabics. Syllabics were later adapted to several ...
The Norway House Cree Nation (Kinosao Sipi) (Swampy Cree: ᑭᓄᓭᐏ ᓰᐱᐩ, romanized: kinosêwi-sîpiy) is based at Norway House, Manitoba, which is on the Playgreen Lake section of the Nelson River system. The people are Swampy Cree from the Rocky Cree (Asiniskaw Īthiniwak or Asinīskāwiyiniwak) band government. They are in possession ...