Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Woods Cree is a variety of Cree, spoken in Northern Manitoba and Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The language family Woods Cree belongs to is the Algic family, within the Algonquian subfamily, and the central Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language group.J.B. Tyrrell, a Canadian geologist and cartographer, and the editor of explorer David Thompson's work found that the people living in the area of Île-à-la-Crosse and upper Churchill River referred to themselves as Nahathaway.Another name foor Woods Cree is Rock Cree, translated by Rossignol (1939) asini•ska•wiðiniwak.It only has 14 letters in the alphabet. There are marked and unmarked letters. Marked are known as long sounds, unmarked are known as short sounds.There are many suffix endings, each have a different given meaning.Cree is mostly built on verbs.There are only 3 personal pronouns in Woods Cree, each corresponding to 3 or 4 pronouns or inflected forms of pronouns in English. The pronoun nȇya means I-My-Mine, the pronoun kȇya means You-Your-Yours, and the pronoun wȇya means He-She-His-Hers."@en }
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- Woods_Cree abstract "Woods Cree is a variety of Cree, spoken in Northern Manitoba and Northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The language family Woods Cree belongs to is the Algic family, within the Algonquian subfamily, and the central Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language group.J.B. Tyrrell, a Canadian geologist and cartographer, and the editor of explorer David Thompson's work found that the people living in the area of Île-à-la-Crosse and upper Churchill River referred to themselves as Nahathaway.Another name foor Woods Cree is Rock Cree, translated by Rossignol (1939) asini•ska•wiðiniwak.It only has 14 letters in the alphabet. There are marked and unmarked letters. Marked are known as long sounds, unmarked are known as short sounds.There are many suffix endings, each have a different given meaning.Cree is mostly built on verbs.There are only 3 personal pronouns in Woods Cree, each corresponding to 3 or 4 pronouns or inflected forms of pronouns in English. The pronoun nȇya means I-My-Mine, the pronoun kȇya means You-Your-Yours, and the pronoun wȇya means He-She-His-Hers.".