Quand vous tapez un u normal avant de le mettre en exposant, ce formatage peut disparaître lorsque vous copiez du texte ou que vous partagez, imprimez ou ouvrez un fichier sur un autre appareil ou dans un autre programme.
Il est préférable d’utiliser un caractère spécial (Unicode) pour le ᵘ en exposant, car il s’affichera toujours correctement partout.
Pour plus d’informations sur la manière de trouver et de taper le caractère spécial pour le ᵘ en exposant, voir : Comment trouver le u exposant unicode dans mon ordinateur ?
When you type a regular u and then make it superscript, that formatting can disappear when you copy text, share, print, or open a file on a different device or in a different program.
It is better to use a (Unicode) special character for the raised ᵘ, because it will always show up correctly everywhere.
For more information on how to find and type the special character for the raised ᵘ, see:
La suite historique « ua », encore aujourd’hui prononcée [ua] dans le dialecte de l’Est, est systématiquement prononcée [u] dans les dialectes de l’Ouest et du Centre.
Suite aux décisions prises en 1997, on écrit « u » en orthographe standard. Ainsi, même si on prononce [uatshu] ‘montagne’, [uanitau] ‘il perd qqch’ et [uashkuai] ‘bouleau’, on écrit utshu, unitau et ushkuai.
Orders are characterized by sets of specific endings. There are three orders in Innu, as in other Algonquian languages: the Independent Order, used mainly for independent clauses and which has personal prefixes for the first and second persons; the Conjunct Order, without personal prefixes and with a different set of endings, used for subordinate or linked clauses; and the Imperative Order, with its own endings, used to give orders or instructions to the second persons.
Pour en savoir plus sur la langue innue et les dialectes innus, voir À propos de l’innu.
The Innu spelling of the place name (toponym) Matimekush reflects the common usage where people hear an i. However, the word is derived from the name of a fish: matamekᵘ as indicated by its etymology in the dictionary: matamekuss. It could therefore also be written Matamekush. The dictionary spelling reflects current habits, which are well established, rather than the historical form (from ancient Innu). In French and English, it’s written: Matimekosh.
[answer compiled by the Comité Tshakapesh-Innu Dictionary editorial team, 2022]
And are there other words like this?
Mitash is a dependent noun because it is formed with the prefix mi- and the stem -tash, which cannot exist on its own: mi+tash = mitash ‘sock’. It’s a dependent noun because we can’t say *nimitash (*ni+mitash), but instead say: nitash (ni+tash) ‘my sock’. Most dependent nouns are kinship terms or body parts, but there are also some objects like mitash ‘sock’ or miush ‘box’ (niush ‘my box’, tshiush ‘your box’). Furthermore, the animacy of mitash varies: in some communities the noun is animate, while in others, it’s inanimate.
Dependent nouns indicate that certain things are always seen in relation to a whole (body, person, kinship) in Innu.
See Dependent nouns.
[answer compiled by the Comité Tshakapesh-Innu Dictionary editorial team, 2022]
The distinction between the stems nekatsh- [nekâtsh-] meaning ‘misery’ and nikatsh [nîkâtsh-] meaning ‘slowness’ exists only for speakers of the MAMIT dialect. For speakers from Pessamit and Uashat (Western dialects), nikatsh- does not exist and its meaning is added to that of the stem nekatsh-.
In the dictionary, for MAMIT, there are verbs with nikatsh- (meaning ‘slowness’) and verbs with nekatsh- (meaning ‘misery’). For Western dialects, there is only the form nekatsh- but the definitions include both meanings, ‘slowness’ and ‘misery’.
The differences in the definitions of these verbs therefore correspond to two large dialectal areas: MAMIT and WESTERN.
[answer compiled by the Comité Tshakapesh-Innu Dictionary editorial team, 2022]
Historically, there was a short i (see East Cree ihtaau and ihtakun). The i reappears in some forms like nititan, tshititan or in the changed form (i>e) of the conjunct etat.
[answer compiled by the Comité Tshakapesh-Innu Dictionary editorial team, 2022]