O michif (tamén escrito mitchif, mechif, michif-cree, métif, métchif ou cree francés) é un das linguas do pobo métis do Canadá e os Estados Unidos, os cales son descendentes das Primeiras Nacións (principalmente cree, nakota, e ojibwa) e comerciantes europeos de peles (principalmente franceses). O michif xurdiu a comezos do século XIX como unha lingua mixta[2] e adoptou unha forma consistente entre 1820 e 1840.
O michif combina cree e o francés dos métis (Rhodes 1977, Bakker 1997:85), unha variedade do francés canadense con algúns préstamos do inglés e varias linguas indíxenas de América, como o ojibwa e o assiniboine. En xeral, a fonoloxía, o léxico, a morfoloxía e a sintaxe dos substantivos derivan do francés métis, mentres que os verbos derivan do cree das chairas (un dialecto occidental do cree). Os artigos e adxectivos tamén son de orixe francesa métis mais os demostrativos son cree das chairas.
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