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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game. Their language, which changed over time from Old Montagnais to Innu-aimun (popularly known since the French colonial era as Montagnais), is spoken...
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Locative case (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
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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Sheshatshiu (category Pages with Innu IPA)
community's name as Sheshatshit, the t spelling is more traditional in the Innu-aimun language, but the u is used more commonly in English to avoid inappropriate...
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Maliotenam (category Innu communities in Quebec)
Maliotenam (Mani-Utenam in Innu-aimun) is a First Nations reserve in Quebec, located adjacent to the city of Sept-Îles. Together with Uashat some distance...
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the 2021 Canadian census. The town is called Uashat, meaning "bay" in Innu-aimun. The city is well known for having major iron companies like Iron Ore...
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Kashtin (category Innu culture)
Vollant, two Innu musicians from the Maliotenam reserve on the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The name Kashtin means "tornado" in the Innu-aimun language...
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Maliseet-passamaquoddy, Mi'kmaq, and the linguistic continuum of Atikamekw, Cree, Innu-aimun, and Naskapi), the Inuit–Aleut language family (Nunavimmiutitut, an Inuktitut...
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akvavit. In northeastern Quebec, a cloudberry liqueur known as chicoutai (Innu-aimun name) is made. Polyphenol extracts from cloudberries have improved storage...
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Mingan (category Innu communities in Quebec)
Mingan, also known as Ekuanitshit in Innu-aimun, is an Innu First Nations reserve, at the mouth of the Mingan River, on Mingan Bay, on the Nort shore of...
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Joséphine Bacon (category Innu women writers)
Bacon OC (born April 23, 1947), is an Innu poet from Pessamit in Quebec. She publishes in French and Innu-aimun. She has also worked as a translator,...
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Pakuashipi (category Innu communities in Quebec)
Pakuashipi (Pakua Shipi, or Pakua Shipu in Innu-aimun and St-Augustin Indian Settlement) is an Innu community in the Canadian province of Quebec, located...
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Alaska. Though there is much debate, the word Eskimo likely derives from a Innu-aimun (Montagnais) exonym meaning 'a person who laces a snowshoe', but is also...
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Inuktitut (an Inuit language), some Algonquian languages (Cree, Iyuw Iyimuun, Innu-aimun, Anishinaabemowin, Siksika), some Athabaskan languages (Dakelh, Dene K'e...
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of Canada, the wolverine is referred to as carcajou, borrowed from the Innu-aimun or Montagnais kuàkuàtsheu. However, in France, the wolverine's name is...
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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 original...
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bands of a few families, grouped into larger tribes and chieftainships. The Innu are the inhabitants of an area they refer to as Nitassinan, i.e. most of...
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Cree language (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
(Western Montagnais, Piyekwâkamî dialect) ilnu-Aimûn (Western Montagnais, Betsiamites dialect) innu-Aimûn (Eastern Montagnais) Cree is believed to have...
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Piétacho and four councillors. The language spoken by the Innus is Innu-aimun, a language of the Cree-Innu-Naskapi dialect continuum of the Algonquian languages...
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the German Moravian missionary Johann Ludwig Beck.[4] Natuashish: from Innu-aimun, meaning "a small lake". Nunatsiavut: from Inuktitut, meaning "our beautiful...
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captain endia andia (Basque), handia in Standard Basque large chave chave (Romance) know ouias wiya:s (Innu-aimun) meat amiscou amisku (Innu-aimun) beaver...
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negotiations by the Corporation Ashuanipi. The language of the Innu people is Innu-aimun. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, on a total population...
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Shauit (category Innu male musicians)
in the Innu-aimun language, with pop-rock and reggae music. Originally from Maliotenam, Quebec, he is the son of an Acadian father and an Innu mother...
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Eskimo (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
Smithsonian linguist Ives Goddard, etymologically the word derives from the Innu-aimun (Montagnais) word ayas̆kimew, meaning 'a person who laces a snowshoe'...
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Saguenay River (category Articles containing Innu-language text)
navigation at this point. Moreover, Chicoutimi means "how deep is it" in Innu-aimun. In downtown Chicoutimi, the Dubuc bridge [fr] and the Sainte-Anne bridge [fr]...
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Southern East Cree Atikamekw (r-dialect) Western Montagnais (l-dialect) Innu-aimun or Eastern Montagnais (n-dialect) Naskapi (y-dialect) Various Cree languages...
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with a shorter narration by Joséphine Bacon of one of her own poems in Innu-aimun. The animation team included Malcolm Sutherland, Philip Lockerby, Jens...
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limited French) Newfoundland and Labrador (de facto; with limited French, Innu-aimun, & Inuttut) Northwest Territories (with 10 others) Yukon (with French)...
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in Innu-aimun. Regarding official languages 18% know both French and English while 76% know only French and 6% do not know any. The Pessamit Innu Band...
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river is still known by Indigenous nations by a number of distinct names. Innu-aimun, the language of Nitassinan, refers to it as Wepistukujaw Sipo/Wepìstùkwiyaht...
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