mi’kmaq language
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Mi’kmaq Studies 10. Mi’kmaq language. 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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mi’kmaq Studies 10
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
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, Mi’kmaq
Only Maliseet and Mi’kmaq are spoken in the Maritime Provinces
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
Mi’kmaq 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
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/peopleandsociety/lang/aboriginallanguages/bycommunity
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mikmaq.htm
What problems do you think arose from the language barriers that were present between the Mi’kmaq 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!
Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – words
Mi'kmaq Online Dictionary – Songs
Use the picture provided to find the Mi’kmaq 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