Narragansett language

Narragansett language
Narragansett
Spoken in United States
Region Rhode Island
Native speakers extinct  (date missing)
Language family
Algic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xnt
Tribal Territories Southern New England.png
The location of the Narragansett tribe and their neighbors, c. 1600

Narragansett (/ˌnærəˈɡænsɪt/)[1] is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken in most of what is today Rhode Island by the Narragansett people.[2] It was closely related to the other Algonquian languages of southern New England like Massachusett and Mohegan-Pequot. The earliest study of the language in English was by Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, in his book A Key Into the Language of America (1643).

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  1. ^ Simmons, William S. (1978) "Narragansett." In Northeast, ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 190.
  2. ^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 16th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics

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