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Cree

Cree

Summary

Cree is spoken by approximately 90,000 people in Canada. Written using both Latin and Cree syllabics, it is agglutinative with free word order and three grammatical cases. Cree is an integral part of Indigenous cultural heritage and education efforts focus on its preservation and revitalization. (The Plains variety of Cree was used as a grammatical reference).

Stats

  • Language Family: Algonquian

  • Writing System: Latin, Cree syllabics

  • Writing System Type: Abugida (Cree), Alphabet (Latin)

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: None

  • Morphology: Agglutinative

  • Cases: 3

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2 classes

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 6

  • Word Order: Free

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 7

  • Number of Consonants: 10

Areas Where Spoken

  • Canada (0.22%) (90 k)

Resources

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