Swampy Cree (sometimes known as Maskegon or Omaškêkowak) is a dialect of the Cree language complex. Swampy Cree is spoken in a series of communities in northern Manitoba along the Hudson Bay coast and adjacent inland areas to the south and west, and Ontario along the coast of Hudson Bay and James Bay. A division is sometimes made between West Swampy Cree and East Swampy Cree. Communities recognized as West Swampy Cree include: Shoal Lake; The Pas; Barren Lands; Churchill; Split Lake; York Factory; Fox Lake; Shamattawa (all in Manitoba); and Fort Severn, Ontario. Communities recognized as East Swampy Cree are: Weenusk, Ontario; Attawapiskat, Ontario; Albany Post, Ontario; and Kashechewan, Ontario; and Fort Albany, Ontario.[1] The Cree spoken at Kashechewan also shows Moose Cree influence. [2] It is one of the western n-dialects of Cree. It has 4,500 speakers.
Notes
- ^ Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd, 1981, p. 53, p. Fig. 1
- ^ Ellis, C. D., 1995, p. xiv
References
- Ellis, Clarence Douglas. 1981. Spoken Cree. Revised Edition. Edmonton: Pica Pica Press. ISBN 0-88864-044-7
- Ellis, Clarence Douglas. 1995. âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina: Cree legends and narratives from the West Coast of James Bay. Text and translation. Edited and with a glossary by C. Douglas Ellis. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. ISBN 0-88755-159-9
- Rhodes, Richard and Evelyn Todd. 1981. “Subarctic Algonquian languages.” June Helm, ed., The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 6. Subarctic, pp. 52-66. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution.
- Wolfart, H.C. and Janet F. Carroll. 1981. Meet Cree: A guide to the Cree language. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 0-88864-073-0
Further reading
- Norman, Howard A. The Wishing Bone Cycle Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians. New York: Stonehill Pub. Co, 1976. ISBN 0883730456
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