• Mohican (also known as Mahican, not to be confused with Mohegan, Mahican: Mã’eekaneeweexthowãakan) is a language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of...
    13 KB (1,173 words) - 04:07, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mohicans
    Mohicans (redirect from Mahicans)
    A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600–1830. University of Nebraska Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0803244955 Brasser, T. J. (1978). "Mahican", in B. G. Trigger...
    33 KB (4,166 words) - 14:30, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Algonquian languages
    south, the languages of the Maritimes and New England are strongly differentiated from those farther south (Mahican, the Delaware languages, Nanticoke...
    21 KB (2,126 words) - 18:22, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Massachusett language
    an areal feature that had spread from the Abenakian languages to Mahican, a Delawarean language, and was beginning to spread into SNEA during the early...
    147 KB (15,126 words) - 22:54, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delaware languages
    Delaware languages and Mahican, sometimes referred to as Delawaran. Nonetheless Unami and Munsee are more closely related to each other than to Mahican. Some...
    39 KB (3,928 words) - 04:17, 9 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hudson River
    Hudson River (category Articles containing Mahican-language text)
    Poughkeepsie. They traded with both the Lenape to the south and the Mahicans to the north. The Mahicans lived in the northern part of the valley from present-day...
    123 KB (11,182 words) - 02:03, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electa Quinney
    Nau-nau-neek-nuk who was also a Stockbridge sachem. Quinney's name in her native Mahican language was Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew Quan-au-kaunt. Upon completing her education...
    15 KB (1,464 words) - 04:14, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Languages of the United States
    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
    162 KB (13,953 words) - 18:17, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Unami language
    subgroup rests upon the high degree of similarity between Mahican and the two Delaware languages, but relatively little detailed argumentation in support...
    38 KB (3,743 words) - 18:14, 16 March 2024
  • state of New York. The name "Basic" is possibly derived from the Mahican language, meaning "stone". Basic Creek Reservoir U.S. Geological Survey Geographic...
    739 bytes (77 words) - 15:05, 31 October 2020
  • Thumbnail for Navajo language
    [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North...
    74 KB (7,411 words) - 12:49, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Sign Language
    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...
    72 KB (8,140 words) - 21:31, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Munsee language
    constitute the Delaware languages, comprising a subgroup within Eastern Algonquian. Taken together with Mahican, the Delaware languages constitute Delawaran...
    40 KB (4,164 words) - 18:14, 16 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mohawk language
    Heek Ing ("food-area place"), a people called by the Dutch "Mohicans" or "Mahicans", called the People of Ka-nee-en Ka "Maw Unk Lin" or Bear People. The Dutch...
    36 KB (3,898 words) - 06:40, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abenaki language
    Cohassiac, Coos, Coosuc, Koes). Hoosac was a mixed settlement with the Mahican. Missisquoi (Mazipskoik, Misiskuoi, Missiassik, Missique, Missisco) means...
    60 KB (6,431 words) - 04:09, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kinderhook Creek
    Kinderhook Creek (category Articles containing Mahican-language text)
    square miles (850 km2). Kinderhook Creek was known as Pasanthkack by the Mahican Native Americans. Prior to 1667 it was known as "Major Abram's (Staats)...
    6 KB (479 words) - 12:15, 15 June 2022
  • called Gullah-English, Sea Island Creole English, and Geechee) is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called "Geechees" within the community)...
    36 KB (3,651 words) - 12:44, 8 April 2024
  • The Alutiiq language (also called Sugpiak, Sugpiaq, Sugcestun, Suk, Supik, Pacific Gulf Yupik, Gulf Yupik, Koniag-Chugach) is a close relative to the Central...
    15 KB (938 words) - 04:25, 14 March 2024
  • derived from Native American languages. Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long...
    7 KB (667 words) - 01:03, 8 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mohegan-Pequot language
    Fielding ) — update of the Mohegan to English Dictionary section of above Mahican vs. Mohegan OLAC resources in and about the Mohegan-Pequot language...
    30 KB (2,152 words) - 05:14, 29 February 2024
  • native languages subsided until the age of reformation occurred. As stated by Michael E. Krauss, from the years 1960–1970, "Alaska Native Languages" went...
    13 KB (1,326 words) - 13:29, 2 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Claverack Creek
    Claverack Creek (category Articles containing Mahican-language text)
    Twastawekak (To-was-ta-we-kak or Twastaweekak) by the Native American Mahican tribe, while the upper creek was named Ska-an-kook or Skaanpook. Fitting...
    4 KB (190 words) - 22:55, 19 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for German language in the United States
    German language at home. It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) and is the third most spoken language in 16 other...
    55 KB (5,468 words) - 03:41, 21 March 2024
  • landing place" Pocasset: (Natick) "where the stream widens" Pontoosuc: (Mahican or Nipmuck) "falls on the brook" Quissett: (Nipmuck) "at the place of small...
    9 KB (802 words) - 22:23, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inuit languages
    as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family, the other being the Yupik languages, which are spoken in Alaska...
    33 KB (3,815 words) - 00:32, 5 March 2024
  • the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances...
    82 KB (9,042 words) - 19:50, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iñupiaq language
    i-NOO-pee-at), Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit, is an Inuit language, or perhaps group of languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern...
    69 KB (4,967 words) - 21:41, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cherokee language
    [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1...
    104 KB (8,436 words) - 04:02, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saanich dialect
    the language of the First Nations Saanich people in the Pacific Northwest region of northwestern North America. Saanich is a Coast Salishan language in...
    17 KB (1,125 words) - 06:41, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plains Indian Sign Language
    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
    30 KB (2,994 words) - 09:13, 8 February 2024