Western Abenaki language

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Western Abenaki is an endangered Algonquian Indigenous language traditionally spoken by the Abenaki people of northern New England and southern Quebec.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Abenaki language 11
Western Abenaki 9
Western Abenaki language canonical 7

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language
Indigenous language of North America
endangered language
alsoKnownAs Alnôba
Alnôbak
Western Abenaki language
surface form: Western Abenaki
closelyRelatedTo Eastern Abenaki languages
surface form: Eastern Abenaki language

Penobscot language
culturalDomain Abenaki oral tradition
ceremonial practices
traditional stories
documentedBy linguist Gordon M. Day
linguist Laurent P. Gagnon
ethnicGroup Abenaki
surface form: Abenaki people
glottocode west2516
hasDialect Missisquoi dialect
St. Francis-Sokoki dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature animacy distinction
obviative marking
person hierarchy in verb agreement
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verb inflection
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal vowels
rich consonant inventory
hasResourceType dictionaries
grammars
text collections
ISO639-3 abe
languageFamily Algonquian languages
region Eastern Woodlands
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
revitalizationEffort community language classes
documentation projects
online learning resources
spokenIn Canada
United States of America
surface form: United States
status revival language
severely endangered
subfamily Eastern Algonquian languages
traditionalRegion Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
northern New England
Southern Quebec
surface form: southern Quebec
usedBy Abenaki communities in New Hampshire
Abenaki communities in Quebec
Abenaki communities in Vermont
writingSystem Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Algonquian languages includesLanguage Western Abenaki language
Abenaki language Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Abenaki peopleSubdivision Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Massachusett language relatedTo Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language closelyRelatedTo Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Western Abenaki language alsoKnownAs Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Odanak First Nation traditionalLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Wôlinak First Nation hasLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Amoskeag Falls hasNameEtymologyFrom Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Indigenous peoples of New England hasSubgroup Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Indigenous peoples of New England hasLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Saranac River hasNameLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Wabanaki peoples usesLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Algic includesLanguage Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Eastern Abenaki languages closelyRelatedTo Western Abenaki language
Alnôba subclassOf Western Abenaki language
Alnôba ethnicGroup Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Alnôba hasAlternativeName Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
Missisquoi dialect subclassOf Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki dialect
Missisquoi dialect partOf Western Abenaki language
Missisquoi dialect ethnicGroupAssociated Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
St. Francis-Sokoki dialect partOf Western Abenaki language
linguist Gordon M. Day languageWorkedOn Western Abenaki language
subject surface form: Gordon M. Day
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
linguist Laurent P. Gagnon fieldOfWork Western Abenaki language
subject surface form: Laurent P. Gagnon
linguist Laurent P. Gagnon languageOfStudy Western Abenaki language
subject surface form: Laurent P. Gagnon
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki
linguist Laurent P. Gagnon studies Western Abenaki language
subject surface form: Laurent P. Gagnon
this entity surface form: Western Abenaki lexicon
Eastern Algonquian languages hasMember Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language
Eastern Algonquian languages hasMember Western Abenaki language
Molly Ockett languageUsed Western Abenaki language
this entity surface form: Abenaki language