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- Michif_language abstract "Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is the language of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations women (mainly Cree, Nakota and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of European ancestry (mainly French Canadians and Scottish Canadians). Currently, Michif is spoken in scattered Métis communities in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada and in North Dakota in the U.S., with about 50 speakers in Alberta, all over age 60. There are some 230 speakers of Michif in the United States (down from 390 at the 1990 census ), most of whom live in North Dakota, particularly in the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. Michif emerged in the early 19th century as a mixed language (not to be confused with a creole), and adopted a consistent character between about 1820 and 1840.Michif combines Cree and Métis French (Rhodes 1977, Bakker 1997:85), a variety of Canadian French, with some additional borrowing from English and First Nation languages such as Ojibwe and Assiniboine. In general, Michif noun phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are derived from Métis French, while verb phrase phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax are from a southern variety of Plains Cree. (Plains Cree is a western dialect of Cree.) Articles and adjectives are also of Métis French origin, but demonstratives are from Plains Cree.The Michif language was first brought to scholarly attention in 1976 by John Crawford at the University of North Dakota. Much of the subsequent research on Michif was also related to UND, including four more pieces by Crawford, plus work by Evans, Rhodes, and Weaver.The Michif language is unusual (and possibly even unique) among mixed languages, in that rather than forming a simplified grammar, it developed by incorporating complex elements of the chief languages from which it was born. French-origin noun phrases retain lexical gender and adjective agreement; Cree-origin verbs retain much of their polysynthetic structure. This suggests that instead of haltingly using words from another's tongue, the people who gradually came to speak Michif were fully fluent in both French and Cree.The number of speakers is estimated at fewer than 1,000; it was probably double or triple this number at the close of the 19th century, but never much higher.".
- Michif_language iso6393Code "crg".
- Michif_language languageRegulator www.metisnation.ca.
- Michif_language spokenIn Canada.
- Michif_language spokenIn Canadian_Prairies.
- Michif_language spokenIn Manitoba.
- Michif_language spokenIn Métis.
- Michif_language spokenIn North_Dakota.
- Michif_language spokenIn Ontario.
- Michif_language spokenIn Saskatchewan.
- Michif_language spokenIn Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink michifdictionary.com.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink michif-source.htm.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink crg.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink www.learnmichif.com.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink www.metisnation.ca.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink michif.aspx.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=12.
- Michif_language wikiPageExternalLink michif.htm.
- Michif_language wikiPageID "44645".
- Michif_language wikiPageLength "21780".
- Michif_language wikiPageOutDegree "75".
- Michif_language wikiPageRevisionID "707046116".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Alberta.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Assiniboine_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Bungi_Creole.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_French.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Prairies.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_French.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Canadian_Prairies.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cree_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endangered_Algic_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endangered_Romance_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Indigenous_languages_of_the_North_American_Plains.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Canada.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mixed_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Métis_culture.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Métis_in_the_United_States.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:North_Dakota_culture.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Chinook_Jargon.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Consonant.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Cree.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Cree_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Creole_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink First_Nations.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink French_Canadians.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Fur_trade.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Grammatical_gender.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Journal_of_Indigenous_Studies.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Lexicon.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Liaison_(French).
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Lists_of_endangered_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Lists_of_extinct_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Lists_of_languages.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Manitoba.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Mixed_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Morphology_(linguistics).
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Métis.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Métis_French.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Métis_people_(Canada).
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Métis_people_(United_States).
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Nakota.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink North_Dakota.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Journal.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Noun_phrase.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Ojibwe.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Ojibwe_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Ontario.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Phonology.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Polysynthetic_language.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Preaspiration.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Saskatchewan.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Schwa.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Scottish_Canadians.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink St._Albert,_Alberta.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Syntax.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink University_of_North_Dakota.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Verb_phrase.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLink Winnipeg.
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "French Cree".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Mechif".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michif language".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michif".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Michif_language".
- Michif_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Méchif".
- Michif_language agency www.metisnation.ca.
- Michif_language date "2010".
- Michif_language family Cree_language.
- Michif_language family Mixed_language.
- Michif_language family Métis_French.
- Michif_language familycolor "Mixed".
- Michif_language glotto "mich1243".
- Michif_language glottorefname "Michif".
- Michif_language iso "crg".
- Michif_language name "Michif".