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Mikmaq language

• Mikmaq Studies 10

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5 First nations language families

• Eskimo-aleut
• Spoken in Arctic regions, Alaska, Labrador, and
  Greenland
• Language of Inuit is Inuktitut
• Athabaskan
• Spoken in Territories and Northern Prairies,
  Southwestern USA
• Languages Beaver, Chipewyan, Navaho, Apache
• Siouan
• Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, USA
• Languages Dakota
• Iroquoian
• Spoken in Ontario, Quebec, New York, and other
  states
• Languages Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga,
  Huron, Tuscarora

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5 first nations language streams

• Algonquian
• Most extensive of North American Language
  Families
• Spoken along the Atlantic Coast from Labrador to
  Carolinas, across Quebec and Ontario, in the
  Prairie Provinces, and into Mississippi River
  drainage
• Languages Beothuk, Cree, Ojibwa, Potawatomi,
  Blackfoot, Montagnais, Maliseet, Mikmaq
• Only Maliseet and Mikmaq are spoken in the
  Maritime Provinces

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Review of native language regions

• Dark orange Cree (Algonquian family)
• In Canada, it is spoken primarily in Quebec,
  Ontario, and into the Prairies
• Brown Algonquian family
• In Canada, it is spoken in the Maritimes, Quebec,
  Ontario, Newfoundland, Prairies
• Mikmaq and Maliseet are the only two Native
  Languages that are spoken in the Maritimes
• Purple Eskimo-Aleut (Inuktitut)
• Spoken in the Arctic regions
• Light Green Siouan (Dakota)
• Spoken in Southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• Dark Green Athabaskan
• Spoken in the Territories and Northern Prairies
• Light Orange Iroquoian
• Spoken in Ontario and Quebec

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NATIVE LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES
http//atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peoplea
ndsociety/lang/aboriginallanguages/bycommunity
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Mikmaq hieroglyphics
http//www.omniglot.com/writing/mikmaq.htm
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Language barriers

• What problems do you think arose from the
  language barriers that were present between the
  Mikmaq and the European settlers?
• How do you think they overcame these barriers?
• Who do you think tried to learn the others
  language?
• Keep these ideas in mind when working on your
  journal entries!

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Mikmaq language

• Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary words
• Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary Songs

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Your task

• Use the picture provided to find the Mikmaq
  translation of 10 things found in the picture.
• These two sites will be helpful, but feel free to
  search for others
• http//www.firstnationhelp.com/ali/dictionary.php
• http//www.mikmaqonline.org/default.html