Endangered Languages Project - Attikamek

Attikamek

^{[aka Cree, Atikamekw, Tête de Boule]}

Classification: Algic

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Cree, Atikamekw, Tête de Boule, Attimewk, Atihkamekw, Atikamek, Attikamekw
CLASSIFICATION		Algic, Algonquian, Cree-Montagnais
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		atj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,000
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The entire native population of about 3,000 is fluent in the language, and most children are monolingual before entering school.

DATE OF INFO: 2008

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Canada

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Attikamek (Tête de Boule, Atikamekw) is the Cree dialect spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières in south-central Quebec.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
5,920 (2011 census) (2016).

PLACES: Canada;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: South central Quebec, between La Tuque, Quebec, and Senneterre, Quebec, 200–400 km north of Montreal, along the upper reaches of Saint Maurice river, 3 isolated communities on reservations of Manuane, Obedjiwan, and Weymontachie.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4,155
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Canada

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,995
Native speakers worldwide

Vulnerable

100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
3,000

DOMAINS OF USE

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

Most children are monolingual in Attikamek before entering school. Schooling is carried out using Atikamekw as the language of instruction in the primary grades.

PLACES: Canada

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: South-central Quebec. Spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières.

PLACES: Canada

LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

COORDINATES

47.2104,-74.3827

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press