1. Family: Algic
  2. Genus: Algonquian

Cree (Eastern)

WALS coordinates: 51° N, 74° W

spoken in Canada

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Cree
Routledge:
  • East Cree
Other:
  • Eastern Cree
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb VO Word Order
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84A Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb No dominant order Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Second position Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase VO and Postpositions Word Order
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98A Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases Neutral Simple Clauses
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99A Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns Neutral Simple Clauses
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject clitics on variable host Simple Clauses
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106A Reciprocal Constructions Distinct from reflexive Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative particle Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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131A Numeral Bases Decimal Lexicon
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 5 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 4.5-5.5 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Yellow/green vs. blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Yellow/green vs. red Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb NegV Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes NegV Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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144A Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb Other Word Order
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144B Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb Immed preverbal Word Order
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