A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian M�tis by Peter Bakker

A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian M�tis

Peter Bakker

336 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammat...

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