LING 100 Lecture 8: Indigenous Languages in Canada
22 Dec 2018
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Biggest language family in canada (by geography and number of speakers); stretches from newfoundland to british. Languages include blackfoot, cree, anishnaabemowin (/ojibwe--endonym), mi"gmaq ii. Historically not thought to include tlingit, but tlingit has been well demonstrated to be related to other dene languages. Many languages in northern canada: d ne s in (chipewan), Dialect continuum, extends across the arctic to include. Inuktitut, inupiaq (/alaskan), kalaallisut (/greenlandic), and other languages. Spoken largely in alberta and into the united states v. Spoken in eastern canada (ontario and quebec) vi. The language family of the territory on which we live and work; sfu extends through bc and into the western us. Language isolate: single member family spoken on haida. Language isolate: single member family spoken in the interior of bc. Most (if not all) indigenous languages of canada are polysynthetic. Polysynthesis = a morphological type, describing languages that are the far end of the index of synthesis.
