Virginia Algonquian > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Virginia Algonquian
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Powhatan; Virginia Algonkian; Virginia Algonquianealg; Virginia Algonquin
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
No known speakers. Ethnic population: 3,000 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
pim
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Virginia Algonquian (vaal)
Brief Description:
"Virginia Algonquian is the name given to the Algonquian language attested in two vocabularies collected at Jamestown between 1607 and 1611. It presumably was the language of the Powhatan confederacy in tidewater Virginia. There may have been speakers as late as 1790, but no further documentation exists." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 25
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Virginia Algonquian
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