Everything about Bungee Language totally explained
Bungee (also
Bungi, Bungie, Bungay, or
The Red River Dialect) was spoken in western
Canada by
Métis descended from
Scottish and
Cree voyageurs. The language was a mixture of
Cree and
Scottish Gaelic, and was spoken until the
mid-twentieth century. Their name is derived from either the
Anishinaabe word "bangii" or the
Cree word "pahkī", meaning "little bit" in both languages.
Barkwell et al. write of Blain's 1989 study:
» This is the only major academic study of the Bungee language. Blain interviewed about six Bungee speakers, not all of whom agreed to be taped. The small sample really limits the value of this thesis.
Brian Orvis, a Bungee-speaker who grew up in
Selkirk, Manitoba, takes issue with Blain’s description of the language as a dialect. He asserts that there are still Bungee speakers and that it's a language like
Michif, and not a dialect (Swan, 1991: 133).
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