Editing Beothuk (section)

{{Short description|Historical Indigenous people of Newfoundland}}
{{About|the ethnic group|their language|Beothuk language}}
{{Indigenous Peoples of Canada}}
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[[File:Beothuk language map.png|thumb|[[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]], the historic home of the Beothuk]]

The '''Beothuk''' ({{IPAc-en|b|iː|ˈ|ɒ|t|ə|k}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|eɪ|.|ə|θ|ʊ|k}}; also spelled '''Beothuck''')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/#316 |title=Dictionary of Newfoundland English (also known by the Mikmaq as the Pi'tawkewaq = up river people, from the mikmaq word pi'tawasi = going up river) |publisher=Heritage.nf.ca |access-date=February 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mithun |first=Marianne |title=The Languages of Native North America |edition=First paperback |year=2001 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge, UK |isbn=0-521-23228-7 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ALnf3s2m7PkC&pg=PA368 368]}}</ref> were a group of [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous people of Canada]] who lived on the island of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |title=American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America |year=1997 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0-19-509427-1 |pages=155, 290}}</ref>

The Beothuk culture formed around 1500 CE. This may have been the most recent cultural manifestation of peoples who first migrated from [[Labrador]] to present-day Newfoundland around 1 CE. The ancestors of this group had three earlier cultural phases, each lasting approximately 500 years.{{sfn|Marshall|1996|pp= [https://books.google.com/books?id=ckOav3Szu7oC&pg=PA7 7–10]}}