Woods Cree

Woods Cree
Nīhithawīwin ᓀᐦᐃᖬᐍᐏᐣ
Native toCanada
RegionNorthern Manitoba, Northern Saskatchewan
Ethnicity53,000 Woodland Cree (1982)[1]
Native speakers
1,800 (2016)[2]
Latin, Canadian Aboriginal syllabics (Cree)
Official status
Official language in
Northwest Territories[4]
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3cwd
Glottologwood1236
Linguasphere62-ADA-ab
Woods Cree is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Woods Cree is an indigenous language spoken in Northern Manitoba, Northern Saskatchewan and Northern Alberta, Canada. It is part of the Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi dialect continuum.[1][5] The dialect continuum has around 116,000 speakers;[2] the exact population of Woods Cree speakers is unknown, estimated between 2,600 and 35,000.

  1. ^ a b Woods Cree at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  3. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  4. ^ Official Languages of the Northwest Territories Archived December 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine (map)
  5. ^ "Cree". www.languagegeek.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.