Bungi dialect

Moribund English dialect of Manitoba, Canada BungiBungee, Bungie, Bungay, Bangay, the Red River DialectPronunciation/ˈbʌn.ɡi/Native toCanadaRegionRed River Colony and Assiniboia, present-day ManitobaNative speakers(<200 cited 1993)potentially extinctLanguage familyIndo-European GermanicWest GermanicNorth Sea GermanicAnglo-FrisianAnglicEnglishScottish EnglishBungiLanguage codesISO 639-3–Glottologbung1271Geographical distribution of BungeeBungee is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Bungi /ˈbʌn.ɡi/ (also called Bungee, Bungie, Bungay, Bangay, or the Red River Dialect) is a dialect of English with substratal influence from Scottish English, the Orcadian dialect of Scots, Norn, Scottish Gaelic, French, Cree, and Western Ojibwe. It was spoken by the Scottish Red River Métis in present-day Manitoba, Canada, and formerly in areas of Ontario and Minnesota, United States. Bungi has been categorized as a post-creole, 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