Quiripi language

Quiripi
Wampano
Native toUnited States
Extinctca. 1900
Language codes
ISO 639-3qyp
Glottologwamp1250
The location of the Paugussett, Tunxis, Podunk, Quinnipiac, Mattabesic (Wangunk), Unquachog and their neighbors, c. 1600

Quiripi (pronounced /ˈkwɪrɪp/ KWIH-rih-pee,[1] also known as Mattabesic,[2] Quiripi-Unquachog, Quiripi-Naugatuck, and Wampano) was an Algonquian language formerly spoken by the indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut and central Long Island,[3][4] including the Quinnipiac, Unquachog, Mattabessett (Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, and Paugussett (subgroups Naugatuck, Potatuck, Weantinock). It has been effectively extinct since the end of the 19th century,[5] although Frank T. Siebert, Jr., was able to record a few Unquachog words from an elderly woman in 1932.[6]

  1. ^ Salwen (1978:175)
  2. ^ Native American Language Net
  3. ^ Rudes (1997:1)
  4. ^ Goddard (1978:72)
  5. ^ Goddard (1978:71)
  6. ^ Rudes (1997:5)