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Moose and Swampy Cree Dictionary
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Language Name
Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi.
Alternate Language Names
Cree, Naskapi, Montagnais, ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ, Nēhiyawēwin.
Region
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Northwest Territories, Canada.
Who
Marie-Odile Junker (conception and design, editor, web development, director), Delasie Torkornoo (design, programming), Claire Owen (project assistant).
Others Involved
C. Douglas Ellis (audio recording, use of materials); Agnes Hunter, Alex Spence, Alexander Sutherland, Andrew Faries, Anne Scott, Clara Conn, Ellen McLeod, Elsie Chilton, Emily Chilton, Emily Wynne, Ernest Sutherland, Gabriel Kiokee, Gilbert Faries, Gordon Spence, Gregory Spence, Hannah Loon, Hannah Wynne, Isaiah Sutherland, James Gunner, Jerry Spence (Gerry), James Wesley, Jane Moore, Joel Linklater, John Carpenter, John Wynne, Margaret Nicholson, Mary Bird, Mary-Lou Iahtail, Matthew Sutherland, Monica Okimaw, Mr. & Mrs. Simon Friday, Mr. M. Metat, Pauline Kostachin, Silas Wesley, Simeon Scott, Sophie Gunner, William Edwards, William Louttit, Willie Frenchman, Xavier Sutherland (language consultants); Joe Tuen (graphic designer); Brian Smith (sound editing); Gabrielle Lacroix (oral stories and descriptions); the Path of the Elders project, Carleton University’s Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education (CIRCLE) (collaboration).
Publishing Information
This dictionary was published online from 2009 to 2016 by C. Douglas Ellis as a compilation of his previous works, and appears to no longer be updated or maintained. A newer version was published in 2018 on atlas-ling.ca with the Algonquian Languages Project.
How People are Cited
Speakers and contributors are cited under the Credits tab.
How Information is Cited
Ellis' previous works, Spoken Cree (2000) and âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâpcimôwina, Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay (1995), are cited in entries. Speakers are cited under Credits.
Where is Information Coming from
This online dictionary is compiled from Ellis's previous work with speakers.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a web-hosted dictionary on a multimedia website, using images and audio files as part of the Stories and Lessons.
Access
This dictionary is open access online.
Included Languages and Directionality
Cree to English; English to Cree. The dictionary can be searched by Cree or English. The website can also be viewed in French.
Dialects Included
This dictionary includes forms from the Moose and Swampy Cree dialects.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, monodirectional dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
This is a dictionary of stems. Below the search bar, viewers can search by Cree word, English definition, part of speech, or all. Each entry is headed by the Cree stem and contains the part of speech, the English definition, and the source of the entry in Ellis' previous work formatted as page:chapter with the title of the work below. Related forms are listed at the end of each entry and are hyperlinked to their own entry in the dictionary.
Under the Lessons tab of the Spoken Cree website, users can view and download all three volumes, including audio files, of Ellis' Spoken Cree publication. The Conjugations tab is a hyperlink to a PDF file entitled Cree Verb Paradigms, intended to accompany the three volumes of Spoken Cree as a grammar guide. It goes over the formation of verbs in Cree and the types of affixes that verbs take.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Guide to use and understand | ❌ | |
| Audio | ❌ | Not available for entries, but available in the Stories resource |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ❌ | |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ❌ |
Other Notes
This resource includes stories told by speakers to be downloaded as audio files under the Stories tab, as well as digitized editions of all Ellis's previous work under Lessons including audio files elicited by Ellis from the speakers he worked with. All of these resources are open access on the Spoken Cree website.
External Links
View the Moose and Swampy Cree Dictionary on the Spoken Cree website (2009-2016): https://www.spokencree.org/Glossary
View the newer Moose and Eastern Swampy Cree Dictionary (2018): https://dictionary.swampycree.atlas-ling.ca/#!/browse#browse