Atikamekw language

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Atikamekw
atikamekw nehiromowin
Native toCanada
RegionQuebec
EthnicityAtikamekw
Native speakers
6,200 (2016 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3atj
Glottologatik1240
ELPAttikamek
Linguasphere62-ADA-c
Atikamekw is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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PeopleAtikamekw Nehirowisiw
LanguageAtikamekw Nehiromowin
CountryNitaskinan (Nehirowisi Aski)

Atikamekw (endonym: Atikamekw Nehiromowin, literally "Atikamekw native language") is a variety of the

Cree[citation needed] and the language of the Atikamekw people of southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is spoken by nearly all the Atikamekw, and therefore it is among the indigenous languages least threatened with extinction, according to some studies.[3]

Atikamekw is a language belonging to the

Montagnais–Naskapi linguistic continuum, which is part of the Central branch of the Algonquian languages of the Algic family of languages. It is sometimes classified as a dialect of Cree.[citation needed
]

The Atikamekw

Anishinaabe language
.

Phonology

Consonants

The consonants of Atikamekw are listed below in the standard orthography and with IPA equivalents in brackets:

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal
 m  [m] n  [
n
]
Stop
 p  [p] t  [
t
] 		tc (c)  [t͡ʃ] k  [k]
Fricative
 s  [s] c (s̀)  [ʃ] h  [h]
Tap
 r  [ɾ]
Approximant
 w [w] i (y)  [j]

In Atikamekw,

underline
on the letter of concern.

Vowels

The

vowels
of Atikamekw are listed below:

Front Back
long short long short
Close î [iː] i [i]
Mid e [eː] ô [oː] o [o]
Open â [aː] a [a]
  • Vowel length (shown above with a circumflex accent) is typically not indicated in the written language.

Notes

  1. ^ Atikamekw at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  3. ^ "Cultures et traditions" (in French). Conseil des Atikamekw d'Opitciwan. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-03-09.

References

  • Béland, Jean-Pierre. 1978. Atikamekw Morphology & Lexicon. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

External links

Atikamekw Nehiromowin edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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