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| Swampy Cree | ||
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| Spoken in: | Canada | |
| Region: | Ontario | |
| Total speakers: | 4,500 (1982) | |
| Language family: | Algic Algonquian Central Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi Swampy Cree |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cre | |
| ISO 639-3: | csw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Swampy Cree (sometimes known as Maskegon or Omushkegowuk) is spoken by people from northern Manitoba, and Western Ontario. It is one of the western n-dialects of Cree. It has 4,500 speakers.
Further reading
- Norman, Howard A. The Wishing Bone Cycle Narrative Poems from the Swampy Cree Indians. New York: Stonehill Pub. Co, 1976. ISBN 0883730456
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