Also Known As:
French Cree, Mitchif, aan krii, Métchif, Mitif, Cree, Turtle Mountain Chippewa Cree
Dialects & Varieties
North America
Victor Golla, Ives Goddard, Lyle Campbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2008. "North America." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Chris Moseley and Ron Asher. 7-41. Routledge.
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~200
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Speakers
Native or fluent speakers:
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Elders
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Ethnic or community population
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Comments on speakers
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Location and Context
Countries
USA; Canada;
Location Description
Several hundred thousand Métis live in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and North Dakota, and Cree,
Ojibwe, French, and more recently English have been widely spoken in Métis communities, which have typically been multilingual.
Government Support
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Institutional Support
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Speakers' Attitude
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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Number of Other Language Speakers:
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Domains of Other Languages:
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Writing Systems
Standard orthography:
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Recent Resources
A CBC news story on the Michif Mentor-Apprentice Program house in Brandon, Manitoba, and the uncerta
This video talks about Michif, a language that is a mix of Cree and French.