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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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 Pidgin or Massachusett Jargon was a contact pidgin or auxiliary language derived from the Massachusett language attested in the earliest...
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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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  • 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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    Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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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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    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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    missionary John Eliot arrived in Boston in 1631. After learning the Massachusett language, which was widely understood throughout New England, he converted...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Canada Native American women Derived from lower East Coast Algonquian (Massachusett: ussqua), which originally meant "young woman". Svenne / svenne banan...
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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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    Christian works, eventually including the Bible, into Massachusett. Having learned quite a bit of Massachusett, Eliot began preaching and practicing evangelism...
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    Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). The Wampanoag language, also known as Massachusett, is a Southern New England Algonquian language. Prior to English contact...
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    Colonists in the Massachusetts Bay area first encountered the Wampanoag, Massachusett, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, and Quinnipiac. The Mohegan...
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    related to the other Algonquian languages of southern New England like Massachusett and Mohegan-Pequot. The earliest study of the language in English was...
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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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  • Lithuanian Luxembourgish M–S Macedonian Malay Maldivian Māori Marathi Massachusett Medumba Navajo Nepali Norwegian Occitan Ojibwe Old Saxon Oromo Ottawa...
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