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…. Read the full article

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.…. Read the full article

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…. Read the full article

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…. Read the full article

Les ordres se caractérisent par des ensembles de terminaisons particulières. Il y a trois ordres en innu, comme dans les autres langues algonquiennes : l’indépendant, utilisé surtout pour les propositions indépendantes et qui a des préfixes personnels aux premières et deuxièmes personnes; le conjonctif, sans préfixes personnels et avec autre ensemble de terminaisons, utilisé pour des…. Read the full article

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…. Read the full article

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…. Read the full article

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-…. Read the full article

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]