Innu-aimun

Montagnais
Innu-aimun
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. ^ Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "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". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2018-06-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lewis, M. Paul; Gary F. Simons; Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.

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