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- proper noun The language of the
Metis people, spoken mainly inCanada .
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Examples
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Stories of our people = Lii zistwayr di la naasyoon di Michif : a Métis graphic novel anthology / Saskatoon : Gabriel Dumont Institute, c2008
New Library Comics: April 2009 David S. Carter 2009
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Stories of our people = Lii zistwayr di la naasyoon di Michif : a Métis graphic novel anthology / Saskatoon : Gabriel Dumont Institute, c2008
Archive 2009-06-01 David S. Carter 2009
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“On Coexistence and Convergence of two Phonological systems in Michif.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Informed observers have noted: The Michif language is unusual among contact languages, in that rather than choosing to simplify its grammar, it chose the most complex and demanding elements of the chief languages that went into it.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Michif Language,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michif_language.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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An example is Michif, or Métif, a combination of French and Cree, with elements of English, Assiniboine, and Ojibway.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Michif Language,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michif_language.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“On Coexistence and Convergence of two Phonological systems in Michif.”
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Linguists conclude from this pattern that “people who devised Michif were fully fluent in both French and Cree,” and they invented a new language by combining some of the most complex elements in several others.55
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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