Michif
French Cree; Mitchif; aan krii; Métchif; Mitif; Cree; Turtle Mountain Chippewa Cree
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"The number of people who have knowledge of the language as they learned it in their youth is probably somewhere between 200 and 2,000."
2013
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"Today, English is the dominant language in all communities, and probably also at the individual level for the vast majority of Michif speakers."
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2011
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230 in United States (2000 census).
2009
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US: 75 (2010 census). Canada: 650 (2011 census).
2016
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Nearly all over 70 years old.
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Scattered as they are, it is difficult to estimate the current number of speakers, but it is probably around 200. Nearly all are over 70 years old.
2008
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Several hundred thousand Métis live in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and North Dakota, and Cree, Ojibwe, French, and more recently English have been widely spoken in Métis communities, which have typically been multilingual.
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Several hundred thousand Métis live in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and North Dakota, and Cree, Ojibwe, French, and more recently English have been widely spoken in Métis communities, which have typically been multilingual.
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- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- "Documenting Michif Variation" HRELP AbstractSammons, Olivia. 2011. ""Documenting Michif Variation" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=282.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=282
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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