Woods Cree is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree, spoken in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada.
It only has 14 letters in the alphabet. There are marked and unmarked letters. Marked are known as long sounds, unmarked are known as short sounds.
There are many suffix endings, each have a different given meaning.
Cree is mostly built on verbs.
There are only 3 personal pronouns in Woods Cree, each corresponding to 3 or 4 pronouns or inflected forms of pronouns in English. The pronoun nȇya means I-My-Mine, the pronoun kȇya means You-Your-Yours, and the pronoun wȇya means He-She-His-Hers.
Famous quotes containing the word woods:
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)