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Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Language and Culturetidbitsglossary

Tidbits to Know

  • There are approximately 50 Aboriginal languages in Canada

  • Cree people live in Central Alberta

  • Blackfoot people live in Southern Alberta

  • Dene and Beaver people live in Northern Alberta

  • In the early days, Aboriginal People did not have a written form of their language. Stories and legends were used to tell history

  • Western Canada contains the most diversity of Aboriginal languages

  • Language is an important part of individual and group identity

  • The Cree language is considered to be one of the few Aboriginal languages that is flourishing

  • The Algonquian language family is the largest in Canada

  • The Cree language contains five dialects

  • There are 11 major language families

  • Of all the provinces Saskatchewan tends to have the highest number of people speaking an Aboriginal language

  • British Columbia has the largest number of different Aboriginal languages spoken

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