Mohican language

Mohican
Mã’eekaneeweexthowãakan
Native toUnited States
RegionNew York, Vermont
Extinctca. 1940
Revival2010s onward
Dialects
  • Moravian
  • Stockbridge
Language codes
ISO 639-3mjy
Glottologmahi1248

Mohican (also known as Mahican, not to be confused with Mohegan, Mahican: Mã’eekaneeweexthowãakan) is a language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a member of the Algic language family.[3] It was spoken in the territory of present-day eastern New York state and Vermont by the Mohican people but is believed to have been extinct since the 1930s. However, since the late 2010s, the language is being revived, with adults learning the language, and children being raised having Mohican as their first language.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Delawaran was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2022-05-24). "Delawaran". Glottolog. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  3. ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005.
  4. ^ Vaisvilas, Frank. "How the lost Mohican language is being revived in Wisconsin with help from a New York initiative". Green Bay Press-Gazette. Retrieved 2022-12-28.