Bungee language

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Bungee   Bungi
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Spoken in:	Canada
Region:	Red River Colony and Assiniboia
Genetic classification:	Mixed language: Cree & Scots Gaelic
Orthography:	Oral language
Current status
Spoken by:	Métis Nation
Total speakers:	Probably extinct
Managed by:	n/a
Prospects:	Probably extinct
Language codes
ISO 639-3:	n/a
See also: Language – List of languages

Bungee (also Bungi, Bungie, Bungay, or The Red River Dialect) was spoken in western Canada by Métis descendended from Scottish and Cree voyageurs. The language was a mixture of Cree and Scottish Gaelic, and was spoken until the mid-twentieth century.

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 is a language like Michif, and not a dialect (Swan, 1991: 133).

See Also

• Cree language
• Michif
• Métis
• Anglo-Métis
• Métis National Council
• Scottish Gaelic
• Scottish Gaelic in Canada

External Links

• Bungee (Canadian Encyclopedia)
• Backgrounds of the Dialect Called Bungi (Manitoba Historical Society)

Bibliography

• Barkwell, Lawrence; Dorion, Leah; & Préfontaine, Darren R. (n.d.). Annotated bibliography and references in Metis legacy. http://www.mmf.mb.ca/pages/publications/files/bibliography.for.metis.researchers.pdf
• Blain, Eleanor M. (1987). Speech of the lower Red River settlement. In W. Cowan (Ed.), Papers of the eighteenth Algonquian Conference (pp. 7–16). Ottawa: Carleton University.
• ——. (1989). The Bungee dialect of the Red River settlement. (MA thesis, University of Manitoba).
• ——. (1994). The Red River dialect. Winnipeg: Wuerz Publishing.
• Cansino, Barbara. (1980, March 26). Bungi in Petersfield: An 81 year old writes about the Red River dialect. Winnipeg Free Press.
• Scott, S. Osborne; & Mulligan, D. A. (1951, December). The Red River dialect. The Beaver, 42–45.
• ——. (1951). The Red River dialect. In J. K. Chambers (Ed.), Canadian English: Origins and structures (pp. 61–63). Toronto: Methuen.
• Pentland, David H. (1985, March 9). Métchif and Bungee: Languages of the fur trade. (Paper presented in the series Voices of Rupert's Land: Public Lectures on Language and Culture in Early Manitoba. Winnipeg.
• Swan, Ruth Ellen. (1991). Ethnicity and the Canadianization of Red River politics (p. 133). (MA thesis, Winnipeg, University of Manitoba).
• Stobie, Margaret. (1967–1968). Backgrounds of the dialect called Bungi. Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, 3 (24), 65–67.
• ——. (1971). The dialect called Bungi. Canadian Antiques Collector, 6 (8), 20.
• Walters, Frank J. (1969–1970). Bungee as she is spoke. Red River Valley Historian and History News. The Quarterly Journal of the Red River Valley Historical Society, 3 (4), 68–70.