Michif

Proper noun

Meaning

One of the languages of the Metis people, spoken mainly in Canada. They exist along a continuum with three main types:
A Cree dialect from northern Saskatchewan with some French borrowings. Synonyms: Michif Cree, Métis Cree, Northern Michif

A variety of French with some Cree borrowings and grammar. Synonyms: Michif French, Métis French

A true mixed language with many elements from both French and Cree. Synonym: French Cree

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As a result, in Michif the grammatical and bound elements are almost all Cree, and the lexical and free elements are almost all French; verbs are almost totally Cree, because the verb consists of grammatical and bound elements. Source: Internet

A language of our own: The genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis. Source: Internet

Contact languages Cree is also a component language in two contact languages, Michif and Bungi. Source: Internet

But by the year 2000 there were Michif speakers who had collapsed the two systems into a single system (Rosen 2007). Source: Internet

However, in reality, Michif has Cree verb phrases and French noun phrases. Source: Internet

In this variety of Michif, the French elements were pronounced in ways that have distinctively Canadian French values for the vowels, while the Cree elements have distinctively Cree values for vowels. Source: Internet

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