Cree is spoken by approximately 90,000 people in Canada. Written using both Latin and Cree syllabics, it is agglutinative with free word order and three grammatical cases. Cree is an integral part of Indigenous cultural heritage and education efforts focus on its preservation and revitalization. (The Plains variety of Cree was used as a grammatical reference).
Estadísticas
Language Family: Algonquian
Writing System: Latin, Cree syllabics
Writing System Type: Abugida (Cree), Alphabet (Latin)
Writing Direction: L to R
Tones / Pitch Accent: None
Morphology: Agglutinative
Cases: 3
Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2 classes
Number of Verb Tenses: 6
Word Order: Free
Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 7
Number of Consonants: 10
Áreas Donde Se Habla
Canada (0.22%) (90 k)
Recursos
Mass Resource List
Dictionary
https://dictionary.plainscree.atlas-ling.ca/#/help: Cree <-> English
Textbooks
Cree: Language of the Plains by University of Regina: Comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners
Website
https://creeliteracy.org/: An extremely well supported and active community with plenty of resources
https://newjourneys.ca/articles/resources-for-learning-cree: A less updated, though solid reference. It has links to schools where people can take courses in studying Cree
https://forvo.com/languages/cr/: Audio files for pronunciation help
https://apihtawikosisan.com/2020/10/nehiyawewin-cree-language-learning-resources/: Rules of a standardized written Cree, but also does important work of addressing the criticisms of standardization