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- Massachusett_language abstract "The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family, formerly spoken by several tribes inhabiting coastal regions of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. It was also commonly referred to as the Natick, Wômpanâak (Wampanoag), Pokanoket, or Indian language. The language was used by John Eliot to print the first Bible in the Americas in 1663. The adoption of the orthography of the Bible led to widespread literacy amongst the indigenous peoples of southern New England. The language went extinct in the late 19th century, but is currently being revived by Wampanoag tribal member Jessie Little Doe Baird, who started work on the Wômpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993. Classes for learners have been set up in four Wampanoag communities, and a handful of native speakers are now growing up in the language. An immersion charter school is set to open in 2015, with Wampanoag as the language of instruction for core subjects. As the school is a charter school, it will be available to both tribal and non-tribal citizens of regional Massachusetts.Originally, the Massachusett language was primarily spoken across eastern and south-eastern portions of Massachusetts, including the North Shore, coastal areas along Massachusetts Bay, and southeastern Massachusetts including what is now Bristol and Plymouth counties, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, and the Elizabeth Islands. Speakers also extended into the lower Merrimack Valley and coastal regions of New Hampshire, and southeastern Rhode Island. The language was understood from the central coast of Maine to eastern Long Island, across most of central and southern New England, and perhaps further as the pidgin variety was used for intertribal trade and communication. The language was spread to the Nipmuc and the Pennacook due to the influence of the Natick Bible in the Christian mixed-band Indian communities. Abenakian languages were spoken to the north, Delawaran languages to the west and southwest, but immediate neighbors were mutually intelligible southern New England Algonquian languages.Descendants continue to inhabit the Greater Boston area and Cape Cod and the Islands, as well as a population in Bermuda descended from enslaved Indians sold there after King Philip's War. Today, the language revival efforts re-introduced the language to the Wampanoag of Aquinnah, Mashpee, New Bedford, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, which are home to the Aquinnah, Mashpee (Massippee), Assonet, and Herring Pond (Manomet or Comassakumkanit) bands, respectively.".
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- Massachusett_language languageFamily Algic_languages.
- Massachusett_language languageFamily Algonquian_languages.
- Massachusett_language languageFamily Eastern_Algonquian_languages.
- Massachusett_language spokenIn Massachusetts.
- Massachusett_language spokenIn Southeastern_Massachusetts.
- Massachusett_language spokenIn United_States.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink A_Key_Into_the_Language_of_America.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Affection_(linguistics).
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Animacy.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Aquidneck_Island.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Aramaic_language.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Canada.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Back_vowel.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Baptists.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Bermuda.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Bible.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Bristol_County,_Massachusetts.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink California.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Canaan.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Eastern_Algonquian_languages.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Endangered_indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages_of_North_America.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Indigenous_languages_of_the_North_American_eastern_woodlands.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Native_American_history_of_Massachusetts.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Native_American_language_revitalization.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Caucus.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Central_Algonquian_languages.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Ch_(digraph).
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Collation.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Columbia_River.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Congregational_church.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Connecticut.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Cotton_Mather.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Cowesett,_Rhode_Island.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Cree_language.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Crispus_Attucks.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Cucurbita.
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- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Cuttyhunk_Island.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink Daniel_Gookin.
- Massachusett_language wikiPageWikiLink David.