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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 who lived on the island of Newfoundland. The Beothuk culture...
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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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    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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    is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Xiongnu† (Mongolia) Xianbei† (Mongolia) Tuoba† (China) Rouran† (Mongolia) Beothuk† (Newfoundland) Meroitic† (Sudan) Bangime (Mali) Jalaa† (Nigeria) Kwaza...
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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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    American Philosophical Society, 409. (Philadelphia, 1855). From the Beothuk language, "Good Indians". Skoffie—writer c. 1799 in Massachusetts Historical...
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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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  • The Mi'kmaq language (/ˈmɪɡmɑː/ MIG-mah), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United...
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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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    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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    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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  • The Shuswap language (/ˈʃuːʃwɑːp/; Shuswap: Secwepemctsín [ʃəxʷəpəməxˈtʃin]) is a northern Interior Salish language traditionally spoken by the Shuswap...
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    known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021...
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    (/ˈskwɔːmɪʃ/ SKWAW-mish; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific Northwest....
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  • Bodwéwadmimwen, Bodwéwadmi Zheshmowen, or Neshnabémwen) is a Central Algonquian language. It was historically spoken by the Pottawatomi people who lived around...
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    The Kutenai language (/ˈkuːtəneɪ, -i/), also Kootenai, Kootenay, Ktunaxa, and Ksanka, is the native language of the Kutenai people of Montana and Idaho...
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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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  • Slavey (/ˈsleɪvi/; also Slave, Slavé) is a group of Athabaskan languages and a dialect continuum spoken amongst the Dene peoples of Canada in the Northwest...
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  • or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken...
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  • A number of languages of North America are too poorly attested to classify. These include Adai, Beothuk, Calusa, Cayuse, Karankawa, and Solano. There...
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  • The Tlicho language, also known as Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì (IPA: [tɬʰĩtʃʰõ jatʰîː]) or the Dogrib language, is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Tłı̨chǫ...
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  • Thompson language, properly known as Nlaka'pamuctsin, also known as the Nlaka'pamux ('Nthlakampx') language, is an Interior Salishan language spoken in...
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  • (French: français canadien, pronounced [fʁãsɛ kanadzjɛ̃]) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties, the most prominent...
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    Canada (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    declined by forty to eighty percent and several First Nations, such as the Beothuk, disappeared. The decline is attributed to several causes, including the...
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