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Native Speakers Worldwide

~3,000

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Language Information By Source

North America
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

~3,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Ethnic Population

3,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

The entire native population of about 3,000 is fluent in the language, and most children are monolingual before entering school.

Year of info

2008

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

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Location description

Attikamek (Tête de Boule, Atikamekw) is the Cree dialect spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières in south-central Quebec.

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Attikamek (Tête de Boule, Atikamekw) is the Cree dialect spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières in south-central Quebec.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

French

Domains of other languages

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,155

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

47.2104,-74.3827

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

3,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

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Child speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

3,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

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Location description

South-central Quebec. Spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières.

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South-central Quebec. Spoken on the Manouane/Manuan, Obedjiwan/Obidjewan, and Weymontachingue/Wemontachie Reserves, north of Trois-Rivières.

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

5,000

Domains of Use

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5,920 (2011 census) (2016).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Canada;

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Location description

South central Quebec, between La Tuque, Quebec, and Senneterre, Quebec, 200–400 km north of Montreal, along the upper reaches of Saint Maurice river, 3 isolated communities on reservations of Manuane, Obedjiwan, and Weymontachie.

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South central Quebec, between La Tuque, Quebec, and Senneterre, Quebec, 200–400 km north of Montreal, along the upper reaches of Saint Maurice river, 3 isolated communities on reservations of Manuane, Obedjiwan, and Weymontachie.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Canada

Coordinates

48.0,-74.0

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Native Speakers Worldwide

3,995

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