Abenaki language

Abenaki Wôbanakiôdwawôgan
Spoken in:	Canada
Region:	Odanak, Centre-du-Québec, Quebec
Total speakers:	20 in 1991
Language family:	Algic  Algonquian   Eastern Algonquian    Abenaki
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	either: aaq – Eastern Abenaki (extinct) abe – Western Abenaki
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Abenaki (also Abnaki) is the cover term for a complex of dialects of one of the Eastern Algonquian languages, originally spoken in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire,northern massachusetts and Maine. Modern Western Abenaki is currently spoken by a very small handful of Abenaki elders in Odanak, Quebec. Eastern Abenaki was until quite recently spoken by elders of the Penobscot tribe in eastern Maine, although it is now extinct[1]. Other dialects of Eastern Abenaki, such as Caniba and Aroosagunticook, now extinct, are documented in French-language materials from the colonial period.

Western and Eastern Abenaki share many similarities but are also different in striking ways, not only in vocabulary but also phonology.

References

• Day, Gordon M. 1994a. Western Abenaki Dictionary. Volume 1: Abenaki to English. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 128.

• Day, Gordon M. 1994b. Western Abenaki Dictionary. Volume 2: English to Abenaki. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 128.

• Harvey, Chris. "Abenaki". Language Geek. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.

• Laurent, Joseph. 1884. New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues. Quebec: Joseph Laurent. Reprinted 2006: Vancouver: Global Language Press, ISBN 0-9738924-7-1

• "Penobscot-Abenaki Pronunciation and Spelling Guide". Native Languages of the Americas. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
• http://www.native-languages.org/abenaki.htm

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One in our language is "bagzegw in theirs. Two is niz. Three is nas. Four is yaw. Five is nolan. Woman is behanem.

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