Mahican language

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The Mahican language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language historically spoken by the Mahican people of the upper Hudson River Valley in what is now New York State.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Mahican language canonical 11
Mohican language 4

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language
Eastern Algonquian language
Native American language
alternateName Mahican language
surface form: Mohican language
alternateSpelling Mahikan language
associatedWith Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Wisconsin
belongsTo Algonquian languages
surface form: Algonquian language family
closelyRelatedTo Mahican language self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mohican language

Munsee language
Unami language
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentedBy linguists
documentedIn colonial-era vocabularies
missionary wordlists
ethnicGroup Mahican
surface form: Mahican people
extinction 20th century
glottologCode mahi1245
hasLinguisticFeature animate–inanimate gender system
complex verb morphology
head-marking
obviative marking
person hierarchy in verb agreement
polysynthetic morphology
rich system of inflectional affixes
hasResourceType dictionaries
grammatical descriptions
text collections
historicalRegion New York
surface form: New York State

Hudson Valley
surface form: Upper Hudson River Valley
languageBranch Algic languages
languageCodeISO639-3 mjy
languageFamily Algonquian languages
migrationHistory Mahican
surface form: Mahican people relocated from New York to Massachusetts and Wisconsin
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
region Northeast Woodlands
surface form: Northeastern Woodlands
revitalizationStatus subject of limited revitalization efforts
spokenBy Mahican
surface form: Mahican tribe

Stockbridge-Munsee Community
status extinct language
subgroup Eastern Algonquian languages
typologicalClassification fusional–polysynthetic language
usedFor ceremonial purposes (historically)
usedIn traditional oral literature of the Mahican people
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin script

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Input
Subject: Mahican language
Description of subject: The Mahican language is an Eastern Algonquian Native American language historically spoken by the Mahican people of the upper Hudson River Valley in what is now New York State.

Referenced by (15)

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

Algonquian languages includesLanguage Mahican language
Mahican language Mahican language
Mahican traditionalLanguage Mahican language
Unami language closelyRelatedTo Mahican language
Mahican language closelyRelatedTo Mahican language self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Mohican language
Mahican language alternateName Mahican language
this entity surface form: Mohican language
Muh-he-con-neok hasLanguage Mahican language
Mahikan language Mahican language
Missisquoi dialect relatedLanguage Mahican language
Eastern Algonquian languages hasMember Mahican language
Stockbridge-Munsee Community languagePreservationFocus Mahican language
this entity surface form: Mohican language
Mahikan language alternateName Mahican language
Mahikan language alternateName Mahican language
this entity surface form: Mohican language
unm isRelatedTo Mahican language
subject surface form: Unami language