Piscataway language
Piscataway | |
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Native to | United States |
Region | Maryland |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Algic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | psy |
Glottolog | pisc1239 [1] |
Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway, a dominant chiefdom in southern Maryland on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay at time of contact with English settlers. [2] Piscataway, also known as Conoy (from the Iroquois ethnonym for the tribe), is considered a dialect of Nanticoke.[3]
This designation is based on the scant evidence available for the Piscataway language. The Doeg tribe, then located in present-day Northern Virginia, are also thought to have spoken a form of the same language. These dialects were intermediate between the Native American groups of Lenape languages formerly spoken to the north of this area (in present-day Delaware and New Jersey) and the Powhatan language, formerly spoken to the south, in what is now Tidewater Virginia.
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References
- OLAC resources in and about the Piscataway language
- A section of a catechism, probably in the Piscataway language, written by Andrew White, S.J.
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