Mohegan-Pequot | |
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Mohiks-Piqut Uyôtowáwôk | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Southern New England, Eastern Long Island |
Ethnicity | Mohegan, Montauk, Niantic, Pequot, and Shinnecock |
Extinct | 1908, with the death of Fidelia Fielding[1] |
Revival | beginning 2010 |
Algic
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Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xpq |
Glottolog | pequ1242 |
The location of the Mohegan, Pequot, Montaukett, Niantic, and Shinnecock, and their neighbors, c. 1600 |
Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montaukett and Shinnecock) is an Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.[2]