Beothuk

Newfoundland, the historic home of the Beothuk

The Beothuk (/bˈɒtək/ or /ˈb.əθʊk/; also spelled Beothuck)[1][2] were a group of Indigenous people of Canada who lived on the island of Newfoundland.[3]

The Beothuk culture formed around 1500 CE. This may have been the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from Labrador to present-day Newfoundland around 1 CE. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.[4]

  1. ^ "Dictionary of Newfoundland English (also known by the Mikmaq as the Pi'tawkewaq = up river people, from the mikmaq word pi'tawasi = going up river)". Heritage.nf.ca. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Mithun, Marianne (2001). The Languages of Native North America (First paperback ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 368. ISBN 0-521-23228-7.
  3. ^ Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford University Press. pp. 155, 290. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
  4. ^ Marshall 1996, pp. 7–10.

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