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- Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who...
- traditional languages of the Métis people along with Michif and Bungi, and is the French-dialect source of Michif. Métis French is a variety of Canadian French...
- meh-TEE(SS), French: [metis], Canadian French: [meˈt͡sɪs],[citation needed] Michif: [mɪˈt͡ʃɪf]) are a mixed-race Indigenous people whose historical homelands...
- "Jargon Loucheux" using the traditional French syntax. Michif (also known as Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, and French Cree) is a mixed language...
- with speaking Michif. Although Michif may have arisen as a way for Métis people to identify themselves, it became taboo to speak Michif inter-ethnically...
- language in at least five contact languages: Michif, Northern Michif, Bungi, Oji-Cree, and Nehipwat. Michif and Bungi are spoken by members of the Métis...
- groups, in which there is a mixture of northern and southern features." Michif is a mixed language that primarily is based upon French and Plains Cree...
- normally correspond to the Michif sounds p /p/, t /t/, k /k/, ch /t͡ʃ/, and sh /ʃ/, which in Michif do not have voiced allophones. Michif has voiced sounds b...
- spoke or still speak either Métis French or a mixed language called Michif. Michif, Mechif or Métchif is a phonetic spelling of the Métis pronunciation...
- Jen Ferguson is a Michif/Métis Canadian writer, activist, and academic of young adult fiction. She is best known for her Governor General's Award-winning...