page_title: Sandy Lake First Nation
section_title: Language
hierarchical_section_title: Sandy Lake First Nation / Language
caption_attribution_description: Image of Robert Fiddler, signer of Treaty 5 for Deer Lake East Ontario Canada
context_page_description: Sandy Lake First Nation is an independent Oji-Cree First Nations band government. The First Nations community, in the west part of Northern Ontario, is located in the Kenora District, 227 km northeast of Red Lake, Ontario. Its registered population in June 2007 was 2,474. As of December 2015 the total registered population reached 3,034. Sandy Lake First Nation maintains an affiliation with Nishnawbe Aski Nation, as a signatory to the Treaty 5.
  Sandy Lake is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal-based service.
context_section_description: The Sandy Lake First Nation speaks the Oji-Cree language and uses a variant western Ojibwe Syllabics.
  Unlike most Syllabics orthographies, Sandy Lake Syllabics Orthography has some unique features:
  Merging of ᐁ-shape and ᔦ-shape sets, but no such merging reflected in the ᐍ-shape set;
  Final y and w written respectively as ᣟ and ᣞ, and not respectively as ᐩ and ᐤ;
  Sandy Lake Orthography is always written in the Unpointed Style, thus the Syllabics'...
  consonant's fortis and lenis values (other than for s and sh) are not distinguished, and
  vowel's length values are not distinguished;
  Although s [s] and sh [ʃ] are distinguished in speech, they are not in writing;
  Fortis s (hs) and fortis sh (hsh) in a word-internal position are written as a gemination;
  ᑫ-shape, ᓀ-shape, and ᓭ-shape sets can vary respectively as P-shape, P-shape, and ᕋ-shape sets;
  ᐦ (p) and either ᐩ (k\hk) or ᕽ (k\hk), and not ᐦ (h), ᐩ (y), and ᕽ (hk or nk);
  l and r are written as ᓫ and ᕑ nesting above the ᓀ-shape set.
  (Note: In James Evans' original Syllabics design, ᣟ was the original designation for the Final y before it got replaced by ᐩ now used by most Western-style Syllabics users; this older form of Final y is still used by handful of northern Canadian communities, including Sandy Lake.)
caption: Robert Fiddler, Sucker clan leader and chief of Deer and Sandy Lake Bands at time of treaties.
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