Naskapi language
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| Naskapi | ||
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| ᓇᔅᑲᐱ naskapi, ᐃᔪᐤ ᐃᔨᒧᐅᓐ iyow iyimoon |
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| Spoken in | Canada | |
| Region | Quebec, Labrador | |
| Total speakers | 1,177 | |
| Language family | Algic
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | nsk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Naskapi (also known as Innu Aimuun, Iyuw Imuun) is an Algonquian language spoken by the Naskapi in Quebec and Labrador, Canada. [1] It is written in Eastern Cree syllabics.
The term Naskapi is not really appropriate when talking about language as it assumes a very close linguistic relationship between Kawawachikamach (Western, or Koksoak) and Natuashish (Eastern, Mushuau Innu, or Davis Inlet dialect) which doesn’t exist. Kawawachikamach Naskapi is a y-dialect and dialectically belongs with East Cree, except that its orthography is significantly different.
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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