{"id":729,"date":"2017-04-17T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/naskapis\/10-langue\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T19:26:22","slug":"10-langue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voixmultiples.com\/en\/naskapis\/10-langue\/","title":{"rendered":"10 &#8211; Langue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LANGUAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"In the end, the Cree text, because it's in Cree, says everything clearly. When you write something in English, the English philosophy comes through it, because that's the language. But as soon you put it into Cree, then the Cree ideas and philosophy take sense of stage. We were given the language and as we use it, the land, everything breathes through it. For me, when I do some of my work, I have to think in Cree first, and get that feeling when I think of a river in Cree, for example. When I read the English version, I kind of understand where the authors wanted to go, and as soon as I translated the text in Cree, the text was breathing.\">It could name anything.<\/a> The names of mountains and rivers. Soft and hard woods. Edible wild berries and those that harm. Wet and powdery snow. The north wind, violent, incessant; the calm sea breeze in the early morning, at twilight. The, <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"The different Algonquin languages in Quebec are close one to another. Often, it's just some pronunciation that changes. For example, some words would finish in 't' in a language, and in 'sh' in another one. When we know that, it's easy to figure out the other languages. It's like the word 'human being'; some say 'Ilnu', others 'Innu'; we understand it's the same word. My uncle, who is Abenquis, says the only nation that nobody understands at all, it's the Mohawks; it's a different language family, the Iroquoian one.\n\">Innu, Atikamekw, Wendat, Maliseet, Mi&#8217;gmak, and Naskapi languages<\/a> could name every single thing on earth, every human emotion.<\/p>\n<p>These are ancient languages that remind us of a distant past, where poetry and rhythm are as much inspiration as nature itself.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry is necessary and vital since a people\u2019s literature begins with the orality of its poetry. It is a life force that grabs you by the gut, which tugs at the back of your throat; it is a wild territory of words just waiting to be discovered and scattered by the winds. So here we are. Talk of beauty. Talk of truth. Talk of the world. Take part in our unique perspective of this beautiful and great narrative, in the wealth of these outlooks.<\/p>\n<p>With words, we find and share the beauty that surrounds us, the stories and the different perspectives on the world introduced by each language; of all these characteristics that make us rise and <a class=\"lightbox_trigger\" href=\"#\" data-description=\"One Atikamekw friend who worked a lot with the language explained to me that 'Atikamekw' doesn\u2019t mean 'white fish' like a lot of people say; it means 'the blood of the caribou'. It makes way more sense for a nomadic nation that they would name themselves after the herd of caribou that was once great. 'Abenquis' actually doesn't mean anything. The real word is Waban-Aki, 'waban' means the rising sun, and 'aki' is almost the same in Cree, it's the territory; so it means 'the people of the land of the rising sun', because they were on the East.\">define us in terms of identity<\/a>. For us, poetry, the language of observation, makes perfect sense, it comes naturally. It is what allows for the understanding of reality in the most fluid manner possible, the most organic.<\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal languages \u200b\u200btell our story, the places where our ancestors have travelled, however they are unable to name all the modernity, the sudden and swift changes.<\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal languages \u200b\u200bare not often written since they are read by few people. They were practical languages, created to name the function of things. They were not languages designed for writing, but rather for chanting and speeches. Both of these arts are still the most mastered today. In new Aboriginal literature, we use maternal languages \u200b\u200bto recreate the time of our ancestors, renew our perspective on their gestures, and poetize the vastness of nature. Each word conjures a powerful and real imagery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANGUAGE It could name anything. The names of mountains and rivers. Soft and hard woods. Edible wild berries and those that harm. 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