Narragansett language
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| Narragansett | |
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| Spoken in | United States |
| Region | Rhode Island |
| Native speakers | extinct (date missing) |
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Algic
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| ISO 639-3 | xnt |
The location of the Narragansett tribe and their neighbors, c. 1600
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Narragansett (/ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt/)[1] is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken in most of what is today Rhode Island by the Narragansett people.[2] It was closely related to the other Algonquian languages of southern New England like Massachusett and Mohegan-Pequot. The earliest study of the language in English was by Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, in his book A Key Into the Language of America (1643).
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- ^ Simmons, William S. (1978) "Narragansett." In Northeast, ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 190.
- ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 16th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics
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