The Miꞌkmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah; Mi'kmaq: [miːɡmax]), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada...

Canadian 2021 census, 9,245 people claim to speak Mi'kmaq, an Eastern Algonquian language. Once written in Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing, it is now written using...

this same field. Maillard left numerous works in the language, which continued in use among the Mi'kmaq into the 20th century. The beginning of the Lord's...

Norman Sylliboy is the 11th Grand Chief or Kji-Saqmaw of the Mi'kmaq Nation. The Mi’kmaq traditional government is known as Sante' Mawio’mi or Grand Council...

province consisting entirely of islands. The island is known in the Mi'kmaq language of its historic indigenous occupants as Abegweit or Epekwitk, roughly...

The Mi'kmaq name for the harbour around which Halifax exists is Kjipuktuk, pronounced "che-book-took". The name means "Great Harbour" in the Mi'kmaq language...

or Mi'kmawey Mawio'mi) is the normal senior level of government for the Mi'kmaq, based in present-day Canada, until passage of the Indian Act in 1876,...

understanding of animal behavior that occurred at a powwow held by the Conne River Mi'kmaq in 1996; an eagle flew over the proceedings, circling over the central...

Maine, Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula. The Mi'kmaq people are part of the large Algonquian-language family and inhabited Nova Scotia at the time the...

Southern Lushootseed: c̓əbal̕qid Menominee: sāhkih Miami-Illinois: šinkohsa Mi'kmaq: mujpej Nisga'a: lisy̓een Nishnaabemwin: zhaangwesh Nlaka'pamuctsin: c̓əx̣lécn...

nothing to do with reins. The word caribou comes through French, from the Mi'kmaq qalipu, meaning "snow shoveler", and refers to its habit of pawing through...

wiikiaami in the Miami-Illinois language wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language wicuw in the Mohegan language ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuck language wikëwam in Unami wickiup:...

Channel, Grand Bay and Mouse Island. The town is called "Siinalk" in the Miꞌkmaq language. Channel was settled by fisher-folk from the Channel Islands in the...

November 12, 2009). 2010. p. 121. ISBN 978-1604734034. "amaljugwej". Mi'gmaq/Mi'kmaq Online Talking Dictionary. 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2025. Neundorf, A....

sixteen and finished school. Rita had to learn her native language again by talking with Mi’kmaq speakers (people from her same tribe). Shortly after she...

île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Mi'kmaq: Unama'ki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast...

Provinces". Revival of Mi'kmaq language has provided strong reason to believe that Verrazzano was informed by the name the Mi'kmaq gave to this place. The...

1st, but were issued a 2-hour penalty for failing to complete the Mi'kmaq language challenge. Three teams checked in during this penalty time, dropping...

Maliseet (Aroostook, Malecite, Malicite, St. John's Indians). From the Mi'kmaq word malisit meaning 'broken talker'. Their own name Wulastegniak means...

Anticosti has had several First Nations names: Natigôsteg, "advanced land" in Mi'kmaq; Natashquan, "where we catch bears”", in Innu. In 1535, Jacques Cartier...

Canada. The population in 2001 was 854. The name derives from the Mi'kmaq language and relates to being near the water. In Scottish Gaelic it was called...

Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (French: Gaspésie, [ɡaspezi]; Mi'kmaq: Gespe'gewa'ki), is a peninsula along the south shore of the St. Lawrence...

stick-and-ball game played by the Mi'kmaq, and Silas Tertius Rand (in his 1894 Legends of the Micmacs) describes a Mi'kmaq ball game known as tooadijik. Rand...

fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages. It is not found in most varieties of Modern English but existed in Old...

England. Miꞌkmaq may also refer to: The Miꞌkmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language Miꞌkmaq hieroglyphic writing, a memory aid used by the Miꞌkmaq Micmac...

unknown. Language – The Mi’kmaq language, the Native tongue of Traylor and his family, is spoken throughout the movie. The Mi’kmaq language is spoken...

Bouctouche: a corruption of the Mi'kmaq word Chebooktoosk, meaning Great Little Harbour. Caraquet: Derived from the Mi'kmaq language, meaning "junction (or meeting)...

The Eskasoni Mi'kmaw Nation (Mi'kmaq: Eskissonqnik) is a band government of the Mi'kmaq First Nations, located in Unama'ki (Cape Breton), Nova Scotia,...

The military history of the Mi'kmaq consisted primarily of Mi'kmaq warriors (smáknisk) who participated in wars against the English (the British after...

composed of the traditional and current territories, or country, of the Mi'kmaq people, in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island...