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product_id: 12847391
title: "Owls See Clearly at Night/Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: A Michif Alphabet/L'Alfabet Di Michif"
brand: "julie flett"
price: "R801"
currency: ZAR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 7
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store_origin: ZA
region: South Africa
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# Owls See Clearly at Night/Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: A Michif Alphabet/L'Alfabet Di Michif

**Brand:** julie flett
**Price:** R801
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Owls See Clearly at Night/Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: A Michif Alphabet/L'Alfabet Di Michif by julie flett
- **How much does it cost?** R801 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Customer Reviews

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    Adorable and educational book.
  

*by T***. on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013*

I bought this book for my partner for Christmas. He is Cree-Metis and is trying to get in touch with more of his family history and language/cultural roots. I am super excited to give this to him. I might even get a copy for myself!

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    My introduction to the Michif language
  

*by C***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2011*

Although I did not enjoy Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn't Know You Didn't Know About Language and Languages by Mikael Parkvall, I did spend two days reading its bibliography alone. Parkvall had consulted hundreds of titles in the compilation of his own work, and I discovered some books about certain languages I had not known about. One language that I had never encountered before reading Parkvall's book was Michif, a language of the Métis. The Michif language is a blend of Cree, French and other regional language elements. It is a severely endangered language, as more and more of the younger generations of Métis are monolingual in English. Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer : l'Alfabet di Michif = Owls See Clearly at Night : a Michif Alphabet by Julie Flett is an alphabet book for young children. I was published in 2010 and I was very surprised to find that my library had it.Flett is an illustrator and for each of the letters of the Michif alphabet (which has no Q or X), Flett, herself a Métis, painted an image specifically relevant to Métis culture.One can see the influence of French in Michif with the words for "water" = "diloo" (de l'eau); "barley" = "lorzh" (l'orge); "snow" = "la niizh" (la neige); "rain" = "la pwii" (la pluie); "eyes" = "lii zyeu" (les yeux); "owls" = "lii yiiboo" (les hiboux) and "night" = "lii swer" (le soir).Michif is only recently a written language, and is still developing a standard orthography. The title alone, to my unscientific eye, seems symptomatic of a new orthography in its abundance of double letters.The paintings are coloured in shades of black, white and red, some with a rare addition of blue or green. They often resembled shadows or silhouettes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Lovely illustrations
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2013*

As an owlaholic I think this is a beautiful and interesting addition to my owl library. I am a sucker for a lovely picture book. This has a twist as it also introduces you to a new language.

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