Southern New England Algonquian

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Southern New England Algonquian is a subgroup of the Algonquian language family comprising closely related Indigenous languages historically spoken in the southern New England region of the United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language subgroup
Indigenous language grouping
classificationBasis comparative-historical linguistics
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContext Indigenous cultures of southern New England
documentedBy colonial-era wordlists and grammars
geographicDistribution Connecticut NERFINISHED
Massachusetts NERFINISHED
Rhode Island NERFINISHED
eastern Long Island
parts of New Hampshire
parts of Vermont
hasAlternativeName SNEA subgroup
Southern New England Algonkian NERFINISHED
hasRevitalizationEffortsIn Massachusett language NERFINISHED
Mohegan-Pequot language NERFINISHED
Narragansett language NERFINISHED
historicalRegion New England NERFINISHED
includesLanguage Coweset language NERFINISHED
Loup A language
Loup B language
Massachusett language NERFINISHED
Mohegan-Pequot language
Narragansett language NERFINISHED
Niantic language
Nipmuc language NERFINISHED
Pocumtuc language NERFINISHED
Quiripi language NERFINISHED
Tunxis language NERFINISHED
influenced place names in Connecticut
place names in Massachusetts
place names in Rhode Island
toponymy of New England
linguisticFeature closely related lexicon among member languages
shared phonological innovations within Eastern Algonquian
similar verb morphology across member languages
macroFamily Algic language family
partOf Algonquian language family NERFINISHED
primarySourcesInclude Bible translations in Massachusett
missionary texts
region Southern New England NERFINISHED
relatedTo Delaware languages NERFINISHED
Mahican language NERFINISHED
spokenBy Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands NERFINISHED
status largely extinct as first languages
subclassOf Algonquian languages NERFINISHED
Eastern Algonquian languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth attested since early colonial period
usedFor reconstruction of Proto-Southern New England Algonquian

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Mohegan-Pequot language linguisticArea Southern New England Algonquian
Nipmuc language languageBranch Southern New England Algonquian
Wôpanâôt8âôk glottologClassification Southern New England Algonquian
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian > Southern New England Algonquian
Eastern Algonquian languages hasMember Southern New England Algonquian
this entity surface form: Narragansett-Massachusett subgroup
Massachusett-Natick lexicalRelation Southern New England Algonquian
this entity surface form: closely related to Narragansett
Massachusett-Natick isPartOf Southern New England Algonquian
this entity surface form: Southern New England Algonquian subgroup