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Abenaki (Eastern: Alənαpαtəwéwαkan, Western: Alnôbaôdwawôgan), also known as Wôbanakiak, [3] is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has Eastern and Western forms which differ in vocabulary and phonology and are sometimes considered distinct languages.
The Abenaki (Abenaki: Wαpánahki) are Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
They wrote the Alnobaodwa Western Abenaki Language Guide, and Brink digitized Day's Western Abenaki Dictionary. [1] In 2006, she published a children's book called Malian's Song, which tells the story of the 1759 attack by British Major Robert Rogers on the St. Francis Abenaki community. [7]
Micmac has innovated significantly relative to other Eastern Algonquian languages, particularly in terms of grammatical features, but it shares a number of phonological innovations and lexical features with Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Eastern and Western Abenaki.
Jesse Bowman Bruchac (born 1972) is an author and language teacher from the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation, [1] [2] a state-recognized tribe in Vermont. He has dedicated much of his life to studying the Abenaki language and preserving the Abenaki culture. He created the first Abenaki language website. [3]
The Cowasuck, also known as Cowass, is an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in northeastern North America and the name of their primary settlement.. Linguistically and culturally the Cowasuck belong to the Western Abenaki and the Wabanaki Confederacy. [2]
Joseph Laurent (Western Abnaki: Sozap Lolô; c. 1839–1917), [1] was an Abenaki chief, best known for authoring an Abenaki language dictionary. He also established a trading post in New Hampshire that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Missiquoi territory within the larger Western Abenaki territory. The Missiquoi (or the Missisquoi or the Sokoki) were a historic band of Abenaki Indigenous peoples from present-day southern Quebec and formerly northern Vermont. This Algonquian-speaking group lived along the eastern shore of Lake Champlain at the time of the European incursion.