Nanticoke is an extinct Algonquian language spoken in Delaware and Maryland, United States. The same language was spoken by several neighboring tribes...
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The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian-speaking people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay area, including Delaware. Today...
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Nanticoke may refer to: Nanticoke people, a Native American tribe originating in Delaware, United States Nanticoke language, an Algonquian language Nanticoke...
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is considered a dialect of Nanticoke. This designation is based on the scant evidence available for the Piscataway language. The Doeg tribe, then located...
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Nacotchtank (section Language)
Piscataway language. The Piscataway language is a dialect of the Nanticoke language, which belongs to the Algonquian subfamily of languages. The Algonquian...
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Powhatan is an Algic language. It is closely related to Unami, Munsee, Nanticoke, Massachusett, and other Eastern Algonquian languages, is more distantly...
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The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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Piscataway people (section Language)
Woodlands. They spoke Algonquian Piscataway, a regional dialect similar to Nanticoke. The neighboring Haudenosaunee, called them the Conoy, with whom they...
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Doeg people (category Nanticoke)
Algonquian language and may have been a branch of the Nanticoke tribe, historically based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The Nanticoke considered the...
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Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) is an Algonquian language initially spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century...
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Powhatan (category Eastern Algonquian languages)
territories were in eastern Virginia. Their Powhatan language is an Eastern Algonquian language, also known as Virginia Algonquian. In 1607, an estimated...
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most commonly used language in the United States is English (specifically American English), which is the de facto national language. A March 2025 executive...
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Language portal Susquehannock, also known as Conestoga, is an extinct Iroquoian language spoken by the Native American people variously known as the Susquehannock...
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Indigenous peoples of Maryland (section Nanticoke)
of the Six Nations gave up all of their claims within the colony. The Nanticoke tribe relinquished their land in June 1768, with the General Assembly's...
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along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. They spoke an Algonquian language and were loosely dominated by the Piscataway. Living along the Patuxent...
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Mohegan–Montauk–Narragansett † Wampano † Nanticoke–Conoy Nanticoke † Piscataway † Powhatan † The languages assigned to the Eastern Algonquian group are...
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original Wesorts and their turbulent world." Doeg people Mattawoman Nanjemoy Nanticoke people Pamunkey Patuxent people Piscataway people Yaocomico Turkey Tayac...
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Tockwogh are extinct as a people. According to John Smith, they spoke "the language of Powhatan". Captain John Smith's party first encountered the Tockwogh...
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Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present territories Tayac Territory...
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List of place names of Native American origin in the United States (category List of place names in the United States by language of origin)
language mənsiw, 'person from Minisink' (minisink meaning 'at the island': mənəs 'island' + -ink locative suffix) + -iw attributive suffix. Nanticoke...
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Tehoka Nanticoke (born 18 January, 1998) is an Iroquois professional lacrosse player who plays for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League...
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Susquehannock (section Language)
Northern Iroquoian language, closely related to the languages of the Haudenosaunee and in particular that of the Onondaga. The language is considered extinct...
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Piscataway-Conoy Tribe of Maryland (category Nanticoke heritage groups)
Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present territories Tayac Territory...
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Choptank people (category Nanticoke)
Talbot, Dorchester and Caroline counties. They spoke Nanticoke, an Eastern Algonquian language closely related to Delaware. The Choptank were the only...
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American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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Assateague people (category Nanticoke)
(meaning: "swifly moving water") were an Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva...
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Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present territories Tayac Territory...
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Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present territories Tayac Territory...
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Yaocomico Historical languages Nanticoke language Piscataway language Powhatan language Susquehannock language Unami language Present territories Tayac Territory...
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