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    Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/), also called Beothukan, is an extinct language once spoken by the indigenous Beothuk people of Newfoundland. The Beothuk...
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    The Beothuk (/biːˈɒtək/ or /ˈbeɪ.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck) were a group of Indigenous people of Canada who lived on the island of Newfoundland. The...
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    Newfoundland (island) (category Articles containing Beothuk-language text)
    documented. The name Beothuk meant 'people' in the Beothuk language, which is often considered to be a member of the Algonquian language family although the...
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  • Beothuk Lake, formerly Red Indian Lake, is located in the interior of central Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The lake...
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    conjectural. Algonquian is sometimes said to have included the extinct Beothuk language of Newfoundland, whose speakers were both in geographic proximity to...
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    française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the...
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  • the language which paved the way for the eventual creation of Yugoslavia in the 20th century. In Newfoundland, the poorly attested Beothuk language went...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    Shanawdithit (category Beothuk people)
    member of the Beothuk people, who inhabited Newfoundland, Canada. Remembered for her contributions to the historical understanding of Beothuk culture, including...
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    or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. The language is characterized by a series of dialects...
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    (Almosan + Keresiouan) Amerind   (all languages excepting Eskaleut & Na-Dené) Algonkian–Gulf   (Algic + Beothuk + Gulf) (macro-)Arawakan Arutani–Sape...
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    Haootia (category Articles containing Beothuk-language text)
    Point, Bonavista Peninsula. The generic name Haootia is derived from the Beothuk word Haoot, meaning 'demon', to signify the striking appearance of the...
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    aboriginal languages written with Canadian Aboriginal syllabics. It is recognized as an official language in Nunavut alongside Inuinnaqtun and both languages are...
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  • Africa Meroitic language America, North Adai language Aranama–Tamique language Beothuk language Cayuse language Solano language Timucua language America, South...
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  • statutory language policy, simply having inherited English from colonial times. The island of Newfoundland was once the homeland of the Beothuk language, and...
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    Iroquoian Ktunaxa Na-Dene Plains Sign Salishan Siouan Tsimshian Wakashan Beothuk ?Plateau Sign In Canada, as elsewhere in the world of European colonization...
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  • possibly Para-Mongolic or an isolate Beothuk † (Newfoundland) – assumed to have been related to Algonquian languages Meroitic † (Sudan) – possibly Nilo-Saharan...
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    known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 people across Canada in 2021, from the...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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    The Miꞌkmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Mi'kmaq: [miːɡmax]), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada...
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    ih-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern...
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    as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska...
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    Michif (redirect from Michif (language))
    Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants...
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  • Lillooet: St̓át̓imcets / Sƛ̓aƛ̓imxǝc, [ˈʃt͡ɬʼæt͡ɬʼjəmxət͡ʃ]) is a Salishan language of the Interior branch spoken by the Stʼatʼimc in southern British Columbia...
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  • Wyandot (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Quendat or Huron) is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known as Wyandot or Wyandotte, descended...
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    Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...
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    Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    their definition of genocide in relation to the Beothuk. While some scholars believe that the Beothuk died out as an unintended consequence of European...
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    Haida /ˈhaɪdə/ (X̱aat Kíl, X̱aadas Kíl, X̱aayda Kil, Xaad kil) is the language of the Haida people, spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast...
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  • The Kaska language is an endangered Athabaskan language. Traditionally, Kaska was an oral aboriginal language used by the Kaska Dena people. The Kaska...
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    Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific Northwest. It spread during the 19th...
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