Eastern Algonquian languages
Eastern Algonquian languages are a subgroup of the Algonquian languages family, itself a part of the Algic languages family indigenous to the East coast of Canada and United States and the region immediately inland from it. At the time of contact with Europeans there were at least 17 languages part of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup. Today, most of them are extinct.
List of languages
[edit | edit source]- Abenaki languages
- Eastern Abenaki (nearly extinct, part of revival programs)
- Western Abenaki (extinct in 1993)
- Carolina Algonquian (extinct)
- Delaware languages
- Etchemin (extinct)
- Loup A (extinct)
- Loup B (extinct)
- Lumbee (extinct)
- Mahican (extinct)
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Massachusett (revived in 1993)
- Mi'kmaq
- Mohegan-Pequot (extinct)
- Nanticoke (extinct)
- Narragansett (extinct)
- Pamlico (extinct)
- Powhatan (extinct)
- Quiripi (extinct)
Revitalization projects
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