Loup language
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Loup | |
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Pronunciation | [lu] |
Native to | United States |
Region | Massachusetts, Connecticut |
Ethnicity | Nipmuck? |
Extinct | 18th century |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either: xlo – Loup A xlb – Loup B |
Linguist list
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xlo Loup A |
xlb Loup B |
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Glottolog | loup1243 (Loup A)[1] |
Loup is an extinct Algonquian language, or possibly group of languages, spoken in colonial New England. Loup ("Wolf") was a French colonial ethnographic term, and usage was inconsistent. In modern literature, it refers to two varieties, Loup A and Loup B.[2]
Attestation[edit]
Loup A, which may be the language of the Nipmuck, is principally attested from a word list recorded from refugees by the St. Francis mission to the Abenaki in Quebec. The descendants of these refugees became speakers of Western Abenaki in the eighteenth century. Loup B refers to a second word list, which shows extensive dialectal variation. This may not be a distinct language, but just notes on the speech of various New England Algonquian refugees in French missions.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Loup A". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Goddard, Ives (To appear). "The 'Loup' Languages of Western Massachusetts: The Dialectal Diversity of Southern New England Algonquian.". Papers of the 44th Algonquian Conference (SUNY Press): 104–138. Check date values in:
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(help) - ^ Victor Golla, 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages
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