Moose Cree language

Moose Cree
Nēhinawēwin
Native to	Canada
Region	Ontario
Ethnicity	5,000 Moose Cree (1982)^[1]
Native speakers	3,000 (2007)^[1]
Language family	Algic Algonquian Central Cree Moose Cree
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`crm`
Glottolog	`moos1236`^[2]
Linguasphere	`62-ADA-ae`

Moose Cree (also known as York Cree, West Shore Cree, West Main Cree) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree, spoken in Ontario, Canada around the southern tip of James Bay.^[3]

Notes

1 2 Moose Cree at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Moose Cree". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum

Classification	Macrofamily: Algic Family: Algonquian (see Proto-Algonquian language) Areal group: Central Algonquian

Western variants (Cree)	From west to east: Plains Cree Woods Cree Western Swampy Cree Eastern Swampy Cree and Moose Cree Atikamekw

Eastern variants (Montagnais-Naskapi)	From west to east: East Cree Northern East Cree Southern East Cree Naskapi Montagnais

Contact languages	Bungi Creole Michif language Oji-Cree language

See also	Bible translations into Cree Cree syllabics Western version Eastern version

Italics indicate extinct languages

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