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Narragansett
Native to
United States
Region
Rhode Island
Ethnicity
1,400 Narragansett and Mohegan-Pequot (1977 SIL)
Extinct
~18th-19th century (?)
No known L1 speakers today.
Language family
Algic
Algonquian
Eastern
Narragansett
Language codes
ISO 639-3
xnt
Linguist List
xnt
Glottolog
narr1280
The location of the Narragansett tribe and their neighbors, c. 1600
Narragansett/ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt/[1] is an Algonquian language formerly spoken in most of what is today Rhode Island by the Narragansett people.[2] It was closely related to the other Algonquian languages of southern New England like Massachusett and Mohegan-Pequot. The earliest study of the language in English was by Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, in his book A Key Into the Language of America (1643).
^Simmons, William S. (1978). "Narragansett". In Trigger, Bruce G. (ed.). Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15: Northeast. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. p. 190. ISBN 978-0160045752.
^Narragansett language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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