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Name:
Eastern Abenaki
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Abnaki, Eastern; Abenaki; Abnaki; Abnaki (Eastern)
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
No known speakers. Ethnic population: 1,800 including Western Abnaki in Canada (1982 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
aaq
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Abenakian; Abenaki; Abenaki-Penobscot; Abnaki (abnk)
Child Dialects:
Pigwacket (aaq-pig)
Penobscot; Old Town (aaq-pen)
Aroosagunticook; Arosaguntacook (aaq-aro)
Caniba (aaq-can)
Brief Description:
"Eastern Abenaki is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language that was spoken in southern and central Maine. The only surviving Eastern Abenaki group is the Penobscot community at Old Town, on Indian Island north of Bangor, Main, where the last fluent speaker of the Penobscot dialect died in 1993. A dialect originally spoken further west survived into the twentieth century at Bécancour, Quebec. The language was extensively documented by French Jesuit missionaries in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and by fieldwork in the twentieth century by Frank T. Siebert, Jr. The most extensive published sources are the dictionaries compiled by the Jesuits Sébastien Râle and Joseph Aubery." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 14
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Eastern Abenaki
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