Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi...
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unrelated to the Inuit languages of other nearby peoples. The "Innu / Ilnu" consist of two regional tribal groups, with the Innus of Nutashkuan being the...
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Betsiamites dialect) innu-Aimûn (Eastern Montagnais) Cree is believed to have begun as a dialect of the Proto-Algonquian language spoken between 2,500...
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lexical items with the Innu language. Although there is a much closer linguistic and cultural relationship between Naskapi and Innu than between Naskapi...
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the Innu language. Though he originally used only guitar and teueikan (a Montagnais frame drum with snares), subsequent performers in his folk Innu style...
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Nitassinan (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Eastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Nitassinan means "our land" in the Innu language. The territory covers the eastern portion of the Labrador peninsula...
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Montagnais of Natashquan, an Innu First Nation band government in Quebec Old Montagnais, the period in the history of the Innu language preceding its current...
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Eskimo (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
[citation needed] The word assime·w means 'she laces a snowshoe' in Innu, and Innu language speakers refer to the neighbouring Mi'kmaq people using words that...
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Naskapi (section Mushuau Innu First Nation)
based on different regional affiliations and various dialects of the Innu language. The word "Naskapi" (meaning "people beyond the horizon") first made...
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The Innu are an ethnic group of Canada. Innu may also refer to: Innu language, an Algonquian language Innu Magazine, a magazine of Kerala, India Innu (album)...
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Churchill Falls (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
usually still known as the Grand River as a calque of its Indigenous name. The Innu had a separate name for the falls, Patshishetshuanau ('place where the current...
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Lac Saint-Jean (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
(407 sq mi), and is 63.1 m (207 ft) at its deepest point. Its name in the Innu language is Piekuakamu. The lake is fed by dozens of small rivers, including...
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Aboriginal or non-Aboriginal walkers. The name "Innu Meshkenu" comes from Innu language and means "The Innu trail". Innu Meshkenu aims at raising Aboriginal people's...
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Locative case (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Saskatoon, SK" mînis (berry) → mînisihk (at the berry) = "[in] Saskatoon, SK" In Innu-aimun, the locative suffix is -(i)t. shipu (river) → shipit (at the river)...
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Lake Melville (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Bay, Rigolet and Cartwright. [1] [dead link] "Innu-aimun.ca: language resources for Innu: Words". Innu-aimun.ca. "Rivers in Canada". Archived from the...
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Iroquois (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Iroquoian languages. They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Historically...
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Wigwam (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
wiikiaami in the Miami-Illinois language wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language wicuw in the Mohegan language ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuck language wikëwam in Unami wickiup:...
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"L-Innu Malti" ('The Maltese Hymn') is the national anthem of Malta. It was written in the form of a prayer to God. Officially adopted in 1964 upon independence...
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American mink (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Swampy Cree: šâkwêšiw ᔖᑴᔑᐤ Moose Cree: shakweshiw ᔕᑴᔑᐤ Naskapi: achikaas ᐊᒋᑲᔅ Innu: atshakash James Bay Cree: achikaash ᐊᒋᑳᔥ Crow: baapúxtakbialee Dakelh Nadleh...
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2023 Governor General's Awards (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
The shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 25, 2023, and the winners were announced on...
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Labrador Peninsula (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
the Innu Nation in the southeast area of the peninsula, who referred to their country as Nitassinan (ᓂᑕᔅᓯᓇᓐ), meaning "our land" in the Innu language. Other...
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Anticosti Island (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Natigôsteg, “advanced land” in Mi'kmaq; Natashquan, “where we catch bears”, in Innu. In 1535, Jacques Cartier wrote: "the said island which we have named the...
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française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the...
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Saguenay River (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Marine Park, one of Canada's national parks. First Nations people, including Innus, have inhabited the Saguenay Fjord area for thousands of years prior to...
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Churchill River (Atlantic) (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
river in Atlantic Canada. The Innu name of the river is Mishtashipu or Mishta-shipu ("Grand River") among the Labrador Innu and Patshishetshuanau-shipu...
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Magpie River (Quebec) (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
after the three Girard brothers who settled in the area around 1849. The Innu have called it by various names, including Moteskikan Hipu, meaning "abrupt"...
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Magpie River (Ontario) (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Creek (left) Tripoli Creek (right) To protect the natural landmark, the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit and the Minganie Regional County Municipality declared...
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An Antane-Kapesh (category Innu women writers)
an important factor in the cultural revival of the language; an Innu-language press (Éditions Innu) was soon founded and existed until 1993. Kapesh followed...
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Quebec, Canada. The members of the band are Innu people and speak the Innu language, an Algonquian language which is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi...
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The Pessamit Innu Band, which the official name is bande des Innus de Pessamit, is an Indian band of the Innu First Nations in Quebec, Canada. Its members...
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