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Mi’kmaq language

Mi’kmaq Studies 10. Mi’kmaq language. Eskimo- aleut Spoken in Arctic regions, Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland Language of Inuit is Inuktitut Athabaskan Spoken in Territories and Northern Prairies, Southwestern USA Languages: Beaver, Chipewyan, Navaho, Apache Siouan

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Mi’kmaq language

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  1. Mi’kmaq Studies 10 Mi’kmaq language

  2. Eskimo-aleut • Spoken in Arctic regions, Alaska, Labrador, and Greenland • Language of Inuit is Inuktitut • Athabaskan • Spoken in Territories and Northern Prairies, Southwestern USA • Languages: Beaver, Chipewyan, Navaho, Apache • Siouan • Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, USA • Languages: Dakota • Iroquoian • Spoken in Ontario, Quebec, New York, and other states • Languages: Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Huron, Tuscarora 5 First nations language families

  3. Algonquian • Most extensive of North American Language Families • Spoken along the Atlantic Coast from Labrador to Carolinas, across Quebec and Ontario, in the Prairie Provinces, and into Mississippi River drainage • Languages: Beothuk, Cree, Ojibwa, Potawatomi, Blackfoot, Montagnais, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq • Only Maliseet and Mi’kmaq are spoken in the Maritime Provinces 5 first nations language streams

  4. Dark orange: Cree (Algonquian family) • In Canada, it is spoken primarily in Quebec, Ontario, and into the Prairies • Brown: Algonquian family • In Canada, it is spoken in the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, Newfoundland, Prairies • Mi’kmaq and Maliseet are the only two Native Languages that are spoken in the Maritimes • Purple: Eskimo-Aleut (Inuktitut) • Spoken in the Arctic regions • Light Green: Siouan (Dakota) • Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba • Dark Green: Athabaskan • Spoken in the Territories and Northern Prairies • Light Orange: Iroquoian • Spoken in Ontario and Quebec Review of native language regions

  5. NATIVE LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/lang/aboriginallanguages/bycommunity

  6. Mi’kmaq hieroglyphics http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mikmaq.htm

  7. What problems do you think arose from the language barriers that were present between the Mi’kmaq and the European settlers? How do you think they overcame these barriers? Who do you think tried to learn the others’ language? Keep these ideas in mind when working on your journal entries! Language barriers

  8. Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – words Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – Songs Mi’kmaq language

  9. Use the picture provided to find the Mi’kmaq translation of 10 things found in the picture. • These two sites will be helpful, but feel free to search for others: • http://www.firstnationhelp.com/ali/dictionary.php • http://www.mikmaqonline.org/default.html Your task

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