Swampy Cree language

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Swampy Cree
Spoken in: Canada 
Region: Ontario
Total speakers: 4,500 (1982)
Language family: Algic
 Algonquian
  Central
   Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi
    Swampy Cree
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cre
ISO 639-3: csw

Swampy Cree (sometimes known as Maskegon) 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.

[edit] 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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