Arok Elessar Wolvengrey ( ; born 2 June 1965 in

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) is a Canadian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

noted for his work with

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languages. Wolvengrey received his bachelor's degree at the

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, his Master's at the

University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of ...

, and his Doctorate at

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. On 15 October 2001, Wolvengrey published what is regarded as the most extensive

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–

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to date. The two-volume work, titled ''ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ: ᐃᑗᐏᓇ / nēhiýawēwin: itwēwina / Cree: Words'', includes 15 000 Cree-to-English and 35 000 English-to-Cree entries. Along with his wife, Dr. Jean Okimāsis, Wolvengrey published a manual on how to use the standard

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orthography for writing in Plains Cree. , Wolvengrey is Professor of Algonquian Languages and Linguistics in the Department of Indigenous Languages, Arts and Cultures at the

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(FNUniv),

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campus. His regularly offered classes focus on syntax and the languages of the Americas.

Literature

*Wolvengrey, Arok, ed. ''ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ: ᐃᑗᐏᓇ / nēhiýawēwin: itwēwina/Cree: Words''.

Canadian Plains Research Center Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

, 15 October 2001. .
New Cree dictionary launched
(University of Regina press release, 15 October 2001)

References

External links

Wolvengrey's biography
at

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