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Name: Plains Cree Type: Language Alternate Names: Cree; Cree (Plains); Cree, Plains; Western Cree Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 34,000 in Canada (1982 SIL). All Cree L1 speakers in Canada 97,230 (2001 census). Population total all countries: 34,100. Ethnic population: 53,000 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 20933 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 34100 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: crk Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Cree (cree) Brief Description: "Plains Cree is the dialect of Cree spoken in a large number of communities in the central prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Northern and southern dialects are distinguished on the basis of phonology and morphology. Plains Cree has become the prestige dialect of Cree, largely because a considerable amount of nineteenth and early twentieth century religious literature was published in it, using the syllabic script." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed