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Name: Northern East Cree Type: Language Alternate Names: Cree; East Cree; Cree (Eastern); East Cree, Northern; Northern James Bay Cree; Northern Eastern James Bay Cree; Northern; Montagnais-Naskapi; Cree Cluster Spoken in: Canada Number of speakers: 5,310 (1997 Quebec Ministere de la Sante et des Services Sociaux). All Cree L1 speakers in Canada 97,230 (2001 Canada census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 6870 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 5308 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: crl Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: East Cree (ecre) Brief Description: "East Cree is the Montagnais-Naskapi language spoken in northwestern Quebec, along the east coast of James and Hudson bays and inland. There is a distinction between northern and southern dialects, the latter with coastal and inland varieties. The northern dialect is spoken in Whapamagostui (Great Whale River), Chisasibi (Fort George), and Wemindji (Paint Hills); southern dialects are spoken in Nemaska (Nemiscau), Waskaganish (Rupert House), Eastmain, Waswanipi, Ouje-bougamau and Mistissini. Of a population of about 12,000, all but a small number are speakers." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14

Endangerment Status

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