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INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES GUIDE

Indigenous languages matter for development, peacebuilding and reconciliation.

Languages play a crucial role in the daily lives of people, not only as a tool for communication, education, social integration and development, but also as a repository for each person’s unique identity, cultural history, traditions and memory.(Source)

This guide is to assist you in researching topics related to the Indigenous languages. Here you will find links to books, ebooks, journals, databases, videos, websites and more about language preservation.

Indigenous Languages Act

Keywords

Use the following keywords to get started searching this subject area:

Algonquin languages
Anishinaabemowin

Anisininemowin

Athabaskan languages

Atikamekw

Blackfoot

Cree

Dakota

Dene (Denesuline)

endonym

exonym

Gitxsan (Gitksan)

Haida

Inuktitut (Inuktituq)

Ininímowin
Inuit languages

Iroquoian languages

Kutenai

Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)

language family
language preservation

language revitalization

language revival

linguistic revitalization

Michif

Mi'kmaq

Mohawk

Montagnai

Nēhinawēwin
Ojibwe (Ojibwa /Ojibway)

Oji-Cree / Ojibwe-Cree

Salish languages

Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)

Siouan languages

Stoney

Tlingit

Tsimshian languages

Wakashan languages