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Name: Nanticoke-Conoy Type: Language Alternate Names: Nanticoke; Nanticoke-Piscataway Once Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: No known speakers. Ethnic population: 400 (1977 SIL) (Ethnologue) Code: nnt Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Nanticoke-Conoy (ntcn) Child Dialects: Choptank (nnt-cho) Nantikoke (nnt-nan) Brief Description: "Nanticoke-Conoy was the Algonquian language of Chesapeake Bay and the Delmarva Peninsula. Conoy (Piscataway) is known principally from some Roman Catholic prayers translated by Andrew White, an English Jesuit; more extensive materials once said to be in Rome have not been found. The longest record of Nanticoke i a vocabulary taken down on the Choptank River in Dorset County, Maryland, in 1792. A few words were also recorded from a group of Nanticokes who joined the Iroquois in the eighteenth century and ended up on the Six Nations Reserve in Canada, where it was spoken as late as the 1860s. Other Nanticokes lost their language after joining Delaware refugees in the west." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 19

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed