Langenesis

Algic family

Cree

1500 CE – today Living

Cree (1500 CE – today) is a living Algic language. Lineage: Proto-Algic → Proto-Algonquian → Cree.

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Speakers
100K (100,000)
ISO 639-3
cre

Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi dialect continuum from the Rockies to Labrador. The most widely spoken Indigenous language in Canada; syllabics script since the 1840s.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Algicc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Algonquianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Cree1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Algonquian.

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