Iyuw Iyimuun

E327061

Iyuw Iyimuun is the Indigenous endonym used by its speakers for the Naskapi language of the First Nations people in northeastern Canada.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Iyuw Iyimuun canonical 2

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations language
Indigenous language
language
associatedWith First Nations in northeastern Canada
closelyRelatedTo Cree
Innu-aimun
country Canada
endonymFor Naskapi language
ethnicGroup Kawawachikamach Naskapi community
surface form: Naskapi First Nation
hasAlternativeName Innu
surface form: Iyuw Iyimuun (Naskapi)

Naskapi
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking
polysynthetic
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasSpeakers Naskapi communities of Kawawachikamach
Kawawachikamach Naskapi community
surface form: Natuashish Naskapi community
isEndonym true
isIndigenousTo Canada
ISO639-3Code nsk
languageFamily Algonquian languages
nameInLanguage Iyuw Iyimuun self-link
region First Nations communities in Labrador
First Nations communities in Quebec
spokenIn Labrador
Quebec, Canada
surface form: Quebec

northeastern Canada
subfamily Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi language complex
surface form: Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi
usedBy Naskapi
surface form: Naskapi people
writingSystem Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Naskapi language hasAlternativeName Iyuw Iyimuun
Iyuw Iyimuun nameInLanguage Iyuw Iyimuun self-link