- Malecite-Passamaquoddy language
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Malecite–Passamaquoddy Spoken in Canada; United States Region New Brunswick; Maine Ethnicity Maliseet people, Passamaquoddy people Native speakers 1,655 (date missing) Language family Algic- Algonquian
- Eastern
- Malecite–Passamaquoddy
- Eastern
Language codes ISO 639-3 pqm This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Malecite–Passamaquoddy (also known as Maliseet–Passamaquoddy) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy peoples along both sides of the border between Maine in the United States and New Brunswick, Canada. The language consists of two major dialects: Malecite, which is mainly spoken in New Brunswick, and Passamaquoddy, spoken mostly in Maine.[1] In both Canada and the U.S., most speakers are older adults.[2] Only 1500 speakers of both dialects combined remain alive. Many younger people cannot speak the language, in particular, the Passamaquoddy dialect.[1]
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Phonology
Consonants
Bilabial Dental Post-alv. Palatal Velar Glottal Plosive p [p] t [t] k [k]
kw [kʷ]Fricative s [s] h [h] Affricate c [t͡ʃ] Nasal m [m] n [n] Approximant central w [w] y [j] lateral l [l] Vowels
Front Central Back High i [i] i: [iː] Mid e [e] e: [eː] ǝ [ə] o [o] o: [oː] Low a [a] a: [aː] Notes
- ^ a b "Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language (Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Language)". Native-languages.org. http://www.native-languages.org/mali.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
External links
- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language at Native Languages
- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary from the Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute
- Chamberlin, Montague (1899). Maliseet Vocabulary. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Cooperative Society).
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Eastern Algonquian languages
- Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
- First Nations languages in Canada
- Languages of the United States
- Endangered Algic languages
- Algonquian
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