WebAn endonym (from Greek: éndon, 'inner' + ónoma, 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, or linguistic community in question; it is their self-designated name for themselves, their homeland, or …

WebThe Cree language (also known in the most broad classification as Cree-Montagnais, Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi, to show the groups included within it) is the name for a group of closely related Algonquian languages, the mother tongue (i.e. language first learned and still understood) of approximately 96,000 people, and the language most often spoken at …

WebCanadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Chanada, A' Ghàidhlig Chanadach or Gàidhlig Cheap Bhreatainn), often known in Canadian English simply as Gaelic, is a collective term for the dialects of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Atlantic Canada.. Scottish Gaels were settled in Nova Scotia from 1773, with the arrival of the ship Hector. …

WebIn the Algonquian languages, which were spoken on the East Coast and were the first to be encountered by Europeans, many feminine nouns end in a suffix with a "kw" or "skw" sound. For example, in Meskwaki-Sauk , Thakiwakwe means a Sauk (Thakiwa) woman ; in Micmac , muwineskw means a female bear (muwin) ; and in the Abenaki language , Cimakskwa ...

WebMany Central New Yorkers pronounce words like elementary, documentary and complimentary with secondary stress on the -ary, so elementary becomes / ɛ l ə ˈ m ɛ n t ˌ ɛr i /, instead of the more widespread pronunciations of / ɛ l ə ˈ m ɛ n t ər i / and / ɛ l ə ˈ m ɛ n t r i /. This feature is shared with the rest of Upstate New York.

WebQuebec English encompasses the English dialects (both native and non-native) of the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec. There are few distinctive phonological features and very few restricted lexical features common among English-speaking Quebecers.The native English speakers in Quebec generally align to Standard …

WebThe word existed in (at least) two earlier forms—apossoun and opassom—and is from a Virginia Algonquian word the exact form of which is now unknown, but that itself comes from the Algonquian *wa·p-, meaning "white," and *-aʔθemw-, meaning "dog, small animal." (A note about those asterisks: they mean that the words are assumed to have ...

WebBelvidere / ˈ b ɛ l v ɪ d ɪər / is a city in Boone County, settled on the Kishwaukee River in far northern Illinois, United States.Known as the 'City of Murals', Belvidere is home to several public art installations throughout the North and South State Street historic districts, which are on the national register of historic places.These historic districts are home to places …

WebDec 09, 2022 · Prior to the arrival of English settlers, the lake was known as “Chaubunagungamaugg,” meaning “fishing place at the boundary,” in Loup, an Algonquian language.

WebThe Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BCE. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the earliest known alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants.In Archaic and early Classical times, the Greek alphabet existed in many local variants, but, by the …