Bungi (also Bungee, Bungie, Bungay, or the Red River Dialect) is a creole of Scottish English strongly influenced by Orcadian, Gaelic, Cree and Ojibwe, and spoken by the Red River Métis in present-day Manitoba, Canada. Bungi has been categorized as a “post-creole”; the distinctive features of the language have been gradually abandoned by successive generations of speakers, in favour of standard Canadian English. Today the creole exists in varying degrees of significant decline, mostly survived in the speech of a few elders and limited to non-standard pronunciations and some terminology.
The name derives from either Ojibwe: bangii, or Cree: pahkī, both words signifying “a little bit” in English. In addition to describing the language, Bungi can refer to First Nations persons generally, or those with mixed European and First Nations ancestry (regardless of perceived cultural affiliation). In these colloquial uses the term may have mildly pejorative connotations, even when used by speakers to describe themselves.