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Name:
Eastern Swampy Cree
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Cree; Moose Cree; Cree, Moose; York Cree; West Shore Cree; West Main Cree
Spoken in:
Canada
Number of speakers:
4,500. All Cree L1 speakers in Canada 97,230 (2001 census). Ethnic population: 5,000 (1982 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
405
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
4500
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
crm
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Cree (cree)
Brief Description:
"Moose Cree is the Cree dialect spoken by about 3,000 people at Fort Albany, Kasechewan, and Moose Factory, on the southwestern shore of James Bay in northern Ontario. While speakers of all ages in Kasechewan are fluent, the language is in serious decline in Moose Factory, where many young adults have little or no knowledge of it. Moose Cree intergrades with Eastern Swampy Cree, especially at Kashechewan, where it has been influenced by the Swampy Cree spoken at nearby Albany Post." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 19
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Eastern Swampy Cree
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