Woods Cree is an Algonquian

Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is a...

 language spoken in Manitoba

Manitoba

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 and Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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, Canada

Canada

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It only has 14 letters in the alphabet. There are marked and unmarked letters. Marked are known as long sounds, unmarked are known as short sounds.

There are many suffix endings, each have a different given meaning.

Cree is mostly built on verbs.

There are only 3 personal pronouns in Woods Cree, each corresponding to 3 or 4 pronouns or inflected forms of pronouns in English. The pronoun nȇya means I-My-Mine, the pronoun kȇya means You-Your-Yours, and the pronoun wȇya means He-She-His-Hers.