Editing Canadian English (section)

==== Indigenous ====
{{Main|Aboriginal English in Canada}}
{{Further|Canadian Aboriginal syllabics|Inuit languages}}
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[[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] and [[Inuit]] from Northern Canada speak a version of Canadian English influenced by the phonology of their first languages. Non-indigenous Canadians in these regions are relatively recent arrivals, and have not produced a dialect that is distinct from southern Canadian English.

Overall, First Nations Canada English dialects rest between language loss and language revitalization. British Columbia has the greatest linguistic diversity, as it is home to about half of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. Most of the languages spoken in the province are endangered due to the small number of speakers. To some extent, the dialects reflect the historical contexts where English has been a major colonizing language. The dialects are also a result of the late stages of [[pidgin|depidginization]] and [[decreolization]], which resulted in linguistic markers of Indigenous identity and solidarity. These dialects are observed to have developed a [[lingua franca]] due to the contact between English and Indigenous populations, and eventually, the various dialects began to converge with standard English.

Certain First Nations English have also shown to have phonological standard Canadian English, thus resulting in a more distinct dialect formation. Plains Cree, for instance, is a language that has less phonological contrasts compared to standard Canadian English. Plains Cree has no voicing contrast. The stops {{IPA|/p/}}, {{IPA|/t/}}, and {{IPA|/k/}} are mostly voiceless and unaspirated, though they may vary in other phonetic environments from voiceless to voiced. Plains Cree also does not have the liquids or fricatives found in the standard form. [[Dene Suline]], on the other hand, has more phonological contrasts, resulting in the use of features not seen in the standard form. The language has 39 phonemic consonants and a higher proportion of glottalized consonants.<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1080/02699200802221620 | title=First Nations English dialects in Canada: Implications for speech-language pathology | date=2008 | last1=Ball | first1=Jessica | last2=Bernhardt | first2=B. May | journal=Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics | volume=22 | issue=8 | pages=570–588 | pmid=18645739 }}</ref>