| The languages spoken by descendants of Canada's original inhabitants are enthralling in their diversity and provide unique opportunities to advance the science of language. Families of languages that hold particular interest for me are Algonquian, Dene, and Wakashan. | He who studies only one Indian language and learns its manifold curious grammatical devices, its wealth of words, its capacity of expression, is speedily convinced of its superiority to all other Indian tongues, and not infrequently to all languages by whomsoever spoken. -J. W. Powell, 1891 (Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico) |
University of Calgary
Aboriginal languages
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