Innu-aimun

Montagnais
Innu-aimun
"Buckle up your children" sign in Innu-aimun, in the Nutashkuan reserve near Natashquan, Quebec
Native toCanada
RegionNitassinan
(Quebec, Labrador)
EthnicityInnu
Native speakers
10,075, 36% of ethnic population (2016 census)[1]
Algic
Early form
Language codes
ISO 639-3moe
Glottologmont1268
Linguasphere62-ADA-bb
Eastern Montagnais is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
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Innu, Ilnu / assi
"person" / "land"
PersonInnu / Ilnu
PeopleInnut / Innuat / Ilnuatsh
LanguageInnu-aimun
CountryNitassinan

Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu[3] in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community.

  1. ^ "Aboriginal Mother Tongue (90), Single and Multiple Mother Tongue Responses (3), Aboriginal Identity (9), Registered or Treaty Indian Status (3) and Age (12) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census - 25% Sample Data". Statistics Canada. 28 March 2018. 98-400-X2016363. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (24 May 2022). "Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.