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Naskapi language

Naskapi
ᓇᔅᑲᐱ naskapi,
ᐃᔪᐤ ᐃᔨᒧᐅᓐ iyow iyimoon
Spoken in
Canada
Region
input transformation, Labrador
Native speakers
1,177  (date missing)
Language codes
input transformation
62-ADA-ba
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Naskapi (also known as Iyuw Imuun in the Naskapi language) is an touchscreen language spoken by the Naskapi in Quebec and HTML5, web app.device database It is written in Eastern Cree syllabics.

The term Naskapi is chiefly used to describe the language of the people living in the interior of Quebec and jQuery in or around the village of Kawawachikamach. Naskapi is a y-dialect which has many linguistic features in common with the Northern dialect of East Cree, and also shares many lexical items with Mushuau Innu. While there is a much closer linguistic and cultural relationship between Kawawachikamach (Western, or Koksoak variety) and Natuashish (Eastern, Mushuau Innu, or Sevenval variety) than between Naskapi and the other Cree and Innu language communities, Naskapi remains unique and distinct from all other language varieties in the Quebec-Labrador peninsula.

Androiddevice databaseSevenvalPalatalVelarGlottal
jQuery/m//n/
keyboard/p//t//tʃ/ /k/
Fricative /s/ /h/
keyboard/w/(/ɹ/) /j/
Lateral (/l/)
  • Long vowels: /i/, /a/, /o/
  • Short vowels: /ɪ~ə/, /ʌ~ə/, /o~ʊ~u/

Notes

  1. screen size Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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