The Massachusett were a Native American tribe from the region in and around present-day Greater Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name comes...
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The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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Massachusett Pidgin or Massachusett Jargon was a contact pidgin or auxiliary language derived from the Massachusett language attested in the earliest...
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The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts...
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Massachusett Pidgin English was an English-based contact language that had developed in early seventeenth century New England and Long Island as a medium...
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The Massachusett dialects, as well as all the Southern New England Algonquian (SNEA) languages, could be dialects of a common SNEA language just as Danish...
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state's official demonym, other terms used included Massachusett, borrowed from the native Massachusett tribe, Massachusite, championed by the early English...
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see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The phonology of the Massachusett language was re-introduced to the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Herring Pond and...
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completed the enormous task of translating the Eliot Indian Bible into the Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies. Eliot...
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The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag is a cultural heritage group that claims descendancy from the Massachusett people, an Indigenous people of the Northeastern...
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(1996) is given below with some emendation, for example treatment of Massachusett and Narragansett as distinct languages. In the case of poorly attested...
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Massachusett writing systems describes the historic and modern systems used for writing Massachusett, an indigenous Algonquian language of the Algic language...
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Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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Canada Native American women Derived from lower East Coast Algonquian (Massachusett: ussqua), which originally meant "young woman". Svenne / svenne banan...
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used as a general word for Indigenous women. The Massachusett Bible was printed in the Massachusett language in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1663. It used...
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According to Captain John Smith, who explored New England in 1614, the Massachusett tribes called their kings "sachems" while the Penobscots (of present-day...
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Massachusetts is currently divided into nine congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After...
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Lithuanian Luxembourgish M–S Macedonian Malay Maldivian Māori Marathi Massachusett Medumba Navajo Nepali Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Old Saxon Oromo Ottawa...
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of the colony only until 1697. The name Massachusetts comes from the Massachusett Indians, an Algonquian tribe. It has been translated as "at the great...
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Ligature (writing) (section Massachusett ꝏ)
John Eliot (later used in the first Bible printed in the Americas, the Massachusett-language Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, published in 1663)...
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Lithuanian Luxembourgish M–S Macedonian Malay Maldivian Māori Marathi Massachusett Medumba Navajo Nepali Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Old Saxon Oromo Ottawa...
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the Indigenous Massachusett Tribe – The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag". Retrieved December 18, 2023. "Chickataubut". The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag...
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in the northeastern United States. Massachusetts may also refer to: Massachusett, the indigenous population after which the Massachusetts Bay Colony was...
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1600 16+ J. A. Maurault and J. R. Swanton 29 NE Woodlands New England Massachusett 30,000 1600 23+ J. A. Maurault and J. R. Swanton 30 Southwest Mexican...
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from 1634 lists "Matampan" as the Massachusett name for Dorchester. Virgin soil epidemics ravaged the Massachusett in the early 1600s, with smallpox killing...
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particularly coastal Maine. The name Tarrantine is one of the words the Massachusett people used to refer to the Mi'kmaq people. In the first three decades...
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are members of the Stockbridge–Munsee Community in Wisconsin Massachusett, Massachusett Bay Nauset tribe, also known as Cape Indians, Cape Cod Nipmuc...
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Lithuanian Luxembourgish M–S Macedonian Malay Maldivian Māori Marathi Massachusett Medumba Navajo Nepali Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Old Saxon Oromo Ottawa...
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Lushootseed, Mahican, Maidu, Makah, Malecite-Passamaquoddy, Mandan, Maricopa, Massachusett, Mattole, Mednyj Aleut, Menominee, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Miami-Illinois...
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States. There is a proposed alternate derivation for pumpkin from the Massachusett word pôhpukun, meaning 'grows forth round'. This term could have been...
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