Nīhithawīwin

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Nīhithawīwin is the Cree people’s own name for their language, reflecting their Indigenous linguistic and cultural identity in Canada.

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Label Occurrences
Nīhithawīwin canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cree language variety
language
associatedWith Cree cultural resurgence
Indigenous language revitalization in Canada
contrastsWith exonyms such as "Cree"
hasCulturalRole carrier of Cree oral tradition
expression of Indigenous knowledge
marker of Cree identity
hasEducationalUse taught in some Cree community schools
used in language immersion and revitalization programs
hasFeature animacy distinction
complex demonstrative system
obviation system
person marking on verbs
rich verb morphology
hasLanguageType morphologically complex language
polysynthetic language
hasOrthographicStandard community-based spelling conventions
hasRegister ceremonial speech forms
everyday conversational speech
hasStatus Indigenous language of Canada
isEndonymFor Cree language
linkedToConcept Cree kinship systems
Cree land-based knowledge
Cree worldview
nameInLanguage Cree
partOfLanguageFamily Algic languages
surface form: Algic language family

Algonquian languages
recognizedBy Cree peoples
surface form: Cree communities
refersTo Cree language
spokenByEthnicGroup Cree peoples
surface form: nīhithawak (Cree people)
spokenIn Alberta
Canada
Manitoba
Plains of Canada
surface form: Prairie provinces of Canada

Saskatchewan
parts of Ontario
parts of the Northwest Territories
transmission primarily oral, with written forms
usedBy Cree peoples
surface form: Cree people
usedIn Cree ceremonies
Cree songs
Cree storytelling
Cree traditional governance contexts
writingSystem Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
surface form: Cree syllabics

Latin alphabet

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Cree language hasEndonym Nīhithawīwin