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BEOTHUK [2 records]

Record 1 2022-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inhabitant Names and Names of Peoples
CONT

The Beothuk were a tall people with dark eyes and black hair. The origin of the Beothuk is not firmly established altough it is generally believed that they are distant relatives of the Algonquin and that they came to Newfoundland, from Labrador, across the 18 kilometer wide Strait of Belle Isle.

OBS

An extinct Indian people.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms d’habitants et noms de peuples
CONT

Béothuk est un mot amérindien signifiant «peuple» ou «vrai peuple». Les Béothuks furent les premiers [Autochtones] rencontrés par les Européens sur l'île de Terre-Neuve. [...] Toute trace de leur existence a été effacée sur l'île de Terre-Neuve avec la mort de Shawnadthit, la dernière d'entre eux survenue en 1829.

OBS

Béothuque : féminin. Béothuks : pluriel.

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
DEF

The language of the Beothuk people, an extinct Indigenous group of Newfoundland.

OBS

The publication of several versions of Beothuk wordlists, in the late 1800s, evoked a lively debate of whether Beothuk is a language of its own, without affinities, or whether it is part of the Algonquian family of languages. … While Beothuk is considered to be part of the greater Algonquian language family, the linguistic evidence is not sufficient to decide whether it belongs to the Central or Eastern Algonquian type.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
  • Arts et culture autochtones
DEF

Langue parlée par les Béothuks, groupe autochtone aujourd'hui disparu, qui vivait alors à Terre-Neuve.

OBS

La publication de plusieurs versions des listes de mots béothuks à la fin des années 1800 a suscité un vif débat à savoir si le béothuk était une langue en soi, sans affinités, ou si elle appartenait à la famille de langues algonquiennes. […] Bien que l'on considère que la langue des Béothuks appartient à la grande famille des langues algonquiennes, les preuves linguistiques ne permettent pas de déterminer si elle appartient à l'algonquien du Centre ou de l'Est.

Spanish

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