Bungi has been categorized as a post-creole,[7][8] with the distinctive features of the language gradually abandoned by successive generations of speakers in favour of standard Canadian English. In 1870, about 5,000 Métis were native speakers of Bungi, but by the late 1980s, only a handful of elderly speakers were known. Today, Bungi has very few if any speakers and is potentially extinct.[1][9]
^Vitt, Iris; Barkwell, Lawrence. "Frank Walters"(PDF). Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Louis Riel Institute. p. 7. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^Stobie, Margaret (2010). "The Dialect Called Bungi". In Gold, Elaine; McAlpine, Janice (eds.). Canadian English: A Linguistic Reader(PDF). pp. 207–10. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^Bakker, Peter; Papen, Robert A. "Michif and other languages of the Canadian Métis". Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^Pentland, David H. (9 March 1985). Métchif and Bungee: Languages of the fur trade (Speech). Voices of Rupert's Land: Public Lectures on Language and Culture in Early Manitoba. Winnipeg Art Gallery.