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:
“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)