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Name: Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Type: Language Alternate Names: Passamaquoddy-Maliseet; Malecite-Passamaquoddy; Pennacook; Maliseet; Malecite Cluster Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 1,100 in Canada (2001 census). Population total all countries: 2,060. Ethnic population: 3,000 to 4,000 (1998 SIL) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 975 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1655 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: pqm Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan) Parent Subgroup: Abenakian; Abenaki; Abenaki-Penobscot; Abnaki (abnk) Brief Description: "Maliseet-Passamaquoddy is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken in the St. Croix and St. John River valleys along the border between the state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick. There are about 500 first-language speakers. Most of those in Maine are members of the Passamaquoddy tribe, while in Canada they identify themselves as Maliseet, but dialect differences between the two groups are minimal. The principal communities in Maine are Pleasant Point and Indian Township, with fewer than 100 fluent speakers between them. In New Brunswick there are 355 first-language speakers at Tobique, Woodstock, Kingsclear, St. Mary's and Oromocto; another 40 live elsewhere in Canada. There are also some speakers of both dialects residing with the Penobscots of Indian Island, at Old Town, Maine, and in an urban community in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Nearly all speakers are middle aged, with the most fluent in their 60s and older." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 17-18

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed