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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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    Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name comes from the Massachusett language term for "At the Great Hill," referring to the Blue Hills overlooking...
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    John Eliot (missionary) (category Translators of the Bible into indigenous languages of the Americas)
    enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies. Eliot was...
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    Massachusett Pidgin English was an English-based contact language that had developed in early seventeenth century New England and Long Island as a medium...
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  • The Massachusett dialects, as well as all the Southern New England Algonquian (SNEA) languages, could be dialects of a common SNEA language just as Danish...
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    Eliot Indian Bible (category Massachusett language)
    missionary John Eliot by translating the Geneva Bible into the Massachusett language. Printed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the work first appeared in...
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  • Massachusett Pidgin or Massachusett Jargon was a contact pidgin or auxiliary language derived from the Massachusett language attested in the earliest colonial...
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  • as a general word for Indigenous women. The Massachusett Bible was printed in the Massachusett language in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1663. It used...
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    Nipmuc (section Language)
    missionary John Eliot arrived in Boston in 1631. After learning the Massachusett language, which was widely understood throughout New England, he converted...
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    Dorcas Honorable (category Last known speakers of a Native American language)
    She was of Wampanoag origin, and was raised speaking the Massachusett language, a language that has since gone extinct but has since been the subject...
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    this massa- element meaning "great" in the Massachusett language also appears in the name of the Massachusett (i.e. "Great Hills people") and subsequently...
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    Eliot of the Massachusetts Bay Colony translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, also called Wampanoag, or Natick (1661–1663); he published the...
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    Chappaquiddick Island (category Articles containing Wampanoag-language text)
    Chappaquiddick Island (/ˌtʃæpəˈkwɪdɪk/ CHAP-uh-KWID-ik; Massachusett language: Noepetchepi-aquidenet; colloquially known as "Chappy”) is a peninsula and...
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  • Massachusett writing systems describes the historic and modern systems used for writing Massachusett, an indigenous Algonquian language of the Algic language...
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  • the Massachusett language was re-introduced to the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Herring Pond and Assonet tribes that participate in the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation...
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    Algonquian languages of southern New England like Massachusett and Mohegan-Pequot. The earliest study of the language in English was by Roger Williams, founder...
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  • interpreter.[better source needed] Eliot translated the Bible into the Massachusett language and published it in 1663 as Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum...
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    medieval Nordic languages for /oː/ (a long close-mid back rounded vowel), as well as in some orthographies of the Massachusett language to represent uː...
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    Gay Head (Aquinnah). The Wampanoag language, also known as Massachusett, is a Southern New England Algonquian language. Prior to English contact in the...
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    Mystic River (category Articles with text in Algonquian languages)
    River is a 7.0-mile-long (11.3 km) river in Massachusetts. In the Massachusett language, missi-tuk means "large estuary", alluding to the tidal nature of...
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    inhabited by Wampanoag people, when Martha's Vineyard was known in the Massachusett language as Noepe, or "land amid the streams". In 1642, the Wampanoag numbered...
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    local ship captains by name. The Abenaki language is an Algonquian language related to the Massachusett language of the Nauset and Wampanoag people of the...
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  • historic apartment building in Indianapolis, Indiana, US Massachusett language Massachusett dialects University of Massachusetts, the entire University...
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    who had translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, understood throughout New England as a second language. He began teaching Indians to read and...
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  • parts of southern New England, English settlers interacted with Massachusett language speaking Wampanoag peoples. John Eliot's translation of the Christian...
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    Nauset (category CS1 maint: unrecognized language)
    aspects of culture, agricultural practices, and a common tongue, the Massachusett language. The tribe was one of the first to be visited by European explorers...
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    Uncanoonuc Mountains (category Articles containing uncoded-language text)
    321 feet (403 m). The name may be derived from the Massachusett language term kuncannowet (Massachusett for 'breast'). The area was developed in the early...
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    Eastern Algonquian languages and dialects by Goddard (1996) is given below with some emendation, for example treatment of Massachusett and Narragansett...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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  • States, related to the Wampanoag people who spoke a dialect of the Massachusett language. The tribal name was applied to Rhode Island's Sakonnet River, Sakonnet...
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