Montaukett language

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The Montaukett language is an extinct Native American language once spoken by the Montaukett people of eastern Long Island, New York, belonging to the Eastern Algonquian branch of the Algic language family.

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Label Occurrences
Montaukett language canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language
Eastern Algonquian language
Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language of the United States
associatedPeople Montaukett Nation NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Montauk Point NERFINISHED
South Fork of Long Island NERFINISHED
belongsToCulturalArea Northeastern Woodlands NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Mohegan-Pequot language NERFINISHED
Narragansett language NERFINISHED
Quiripi language NERFINISHED
Unquachog language NERFINISHED
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentationStatus poorly documented
ethnicGroup Montaukett people NERFINISHED
extinctionReason language shift to English
glottocode mont1268
glottologName Montauk NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Montauk language
Montaukett-Montauk NERFINISHED
hasDescendant no known living descendant language
hasISO639-3Code mof
hasLanguageContactWith Dutch language NERFINISHED
English language
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
hasMorphology rich verbal morphology
hasNeighboringLanguage Shinnecock language NERFINISHED
Unquachog language NERFINISHED
hasPhylum Algic NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isPartOf Algic languages NERFINISHED
Eastern Algonquian languages NERFINISHED
languageBranch Eastern Algonquian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Algic languages NERFINISHED
Algonquian languages
languageOf Long Island NERFINISHED
region eastern Long Island
spokenBy Montaukett tribe NERFINISHED
spokenInThePast 17th century
18th century
19th century
state New York
status extinct
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Eastern Algonquian languages hasMember Montaukett language