Mahican language

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Algonquian language Eastern Algonquian language Native American language

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.

Aliases (1)

Mohican language ×2

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Algonquian language → Eastern Algonquian language → Native American language →
alternateName	Mohican language →
alternateSpelling	Mahikan language →
associatedWith	Stockbridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED → Wisconsin →
belongsTo	Algonquian language family →
closelyRelatedTo	Mohican language → Munsee language → Unami language →
country	United States →
documentedBy	linguists →
documentedIn	colonial-era vocabularies → missionary wordlists →
ethnicGroup	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 State → Upper Hudson River Valley →
languageBranch	Algic languages →
languageCodeISO639-3	mjy →
languageFamily	Algonquian languages →
migrationHistory	Mahican people relocated from New York to Massachusetts and Wisconsin →
phonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → rich consonant inventory →
region	Northeastern Woodlands →
revitalizationStatus	subject of limited revitalization efforts →
spokenBy	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 →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Mahican language ("Mohican language") → Unami language →	closelyRelatedTo
Mahican → Mahikan →	language
Mahican language ("Mohican language") →	alternateName
Muh-he-con-neok →	hasLanguage
Algonquian languages →	includesLanguage
Stockbridge Indian mission →	primaryLanguage
Mahican →	traditionalLanguage