Old Montagnais Explained

Old Montagnais
Region:Quebec, Labrador
Era:Developed into Innu
Familycolor:Algic
Fam1:Algic
Fam2:Algonquian
Fam3:Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi[1]
Isoexception:historical
Glotto:none

Old Montagnais is the period in the history of the Innu-aimun language preceding its current form.

There are several sound changes that Old Montagnais underwent. One example is the change from Old Montagnais ayaškimew to modern Innu ayassimēw.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cree-Montagnais-Naskapi . 2022-05-24 . 2022-10-29 . . Hammarström . Harald . https://web.archive.org/web/20221015114502/https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cree1271 . 2022-10-15 . live . . Forkel . Robert . Haspelmath . Martin . Bank . Sebastian.