dialect_varieties: "Northern East Cree, Southern East Cree",
public_comment: "Cree-Montagnais is a chain of Algonquian languages extending across Canada from the Rockies to the coast of Labrador. There is some degree of mutual intelligibility across the entire chain of languages. East Cree is the Montagnais-Naskapi dialect spoken in northwestern Quebec, along the east coast of James and Hudson Bay and inland.
There is a distinction between northern and southern subdialects, the latter with coastal and inland varieties. The northern dialect is spoken in Whapamagostui (Great Whale River), Chisasibi (Fort George), and Wemindji (Paint Hills); southern dialects are spoken in Nemaska (Nemiscau), Waskaganish (Rupert House), Eastmain, Waswanipi, Ouje-bougamau and Mistissini. (Golla et al. 2008.)
Ethnologue distinguishes Northern East Cree [crl] from Southern East Cree [crj], where others consider these dialects of East Cree. ",
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speakers: [
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code_id:2165,
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speaker_number_text: "5,310",
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elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1997",
public_comment: "Ethnologue distinguishes Northern East Cree [crl] from Southern East Cree [crj]: 12,620 total.
Northern East Cree [crl]: 5,310 (1997 Quebec Ministere de la Sante et des Services Sociaux). All Cree L1 speakers in Canada 97,230 (2001 Canada census) (2013 unchanged).
Southern East Cree [crj]: 7,310 (1997 MSSS) (2013 unchanged).",
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
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date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "6,870 Northern East Cree
4,455 Southern East Cree",
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source_id:1521,
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},
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code_id:2165,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "12,614",
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date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "5,308 Northern East Cree; 7,306 Southern East Cree",
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source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
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private_comment: null,
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speaker_number: "10000-99999",
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public_comment: "Of a population of about 12,000, all but a small number are speakers.",