A Key into the Language of America or An help to the Language of the Natives in that part of America called New England is a book written by Roger Williams...
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A Key Into the Language of America (1643). The word narragansett means, literally, '(people) of the small point'. The "point" may be located on the Salt...
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Papoose (category Indigenous peoples of North America stubs)
a term of endearment, often in the context of the child's mother. In 1643, Roger Williams recorded the word in his A Key into the Language of America...
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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue...
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Succotash (category Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies)
portal A Key into the Language of America List of legume dishes List of maize dishes List of regional dishes of the United States Umngqusho, a similar...
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Penobscot (redirect from Penobscot Tribe of Maine)
in the Roman alphabet. In 1643, Roger Williams wrote A Key into the Language of America. In this work, Williams explained that the language of the Narragansett...
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Roger Williams (category Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees)
Revisiting Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America". Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131 (2016): 64–83. Hall, Timothy...
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Narragansett people (redirect from Narragansett Indian Tribe of Rhode Island)
studying the Narragansett language, and he wrote a definitive study on it in 1643 entitled A Key Into the Language of America. He traced the source of the word...
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Squaw (category Anti-indigenous racism in the Americas)
English, A Key into the Language of America, written in 1643, Puritan Minister Roger Williams wrote his impressions of the Narragansett language. Williams...
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Look up key or Keys in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Key, Keys, The Key or The Keys may refer to: Key (cryptography), a piece of information needed...
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Colon (punctuation) (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
after a semicolon. "A key into the language of America". 1643. Ioppolo, Grace (2006). Dramatists and their manuscripts in the age of Shakespeare, Jonson...
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The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. The Americas make up most...
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Lee Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is an American politician, political scientist, and perennial candidate who served as the Assistant Secretary of State...
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upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern...
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Hard clam (redirect from American hard-shelled clam)
Williams, A Key Into the Language of America. London: Gregory Dexter, 1643. Eldridge, P.J., W. Waltz, and H. Mills. 1975. Relative abundance of Mercenaria...
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The Skeleton Key is a 2005 American supernatural folk horror film directed by Iain Softley and starring Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard...
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Massachusett dialects (redirect from Wôpanâak language)
thorough linguistic review of Roger Williams' A Key into the Language of America and place names, but most of the languages are only known from local place...
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United States (redirect from United States of America (U.S.A.))
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America...
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Burrillville, Rhode Island (redirect from History of Burrillville, Rhode Island)
Williams in his A Key Into the Language of America, and "askoog" by the Reverend John Eliot in his Algonquian translation of the Bible. Burrillville's principal...
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least a thousand different Indigenous languages spoken across the Americas, with 574 federally recognized tribes in the US alone. Some languages, including...
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This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The article is divided into North...
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is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island...
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New England's First Fruits (category History books about the United States)
Native American servants and eventually attempted to gained her freedom with the help of the local church. Roger Williams' A Key Into the Language of America...
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The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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Crispus Attucks (category People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution)
Williams, A key into the language of America p. 106 (London: Gregory Dexter, 1643) Palliser, Jerome J. (March 5, 2014). "The hidden life of Crispus Attucks"...
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1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore...
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Dorothy Miles (category Educators of the deaf)
was a Welsh poet and activist in the Deaf community. Throughout her life, she composed her poems in English, British Sign Language, and American Sign...
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The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity...
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Nanepashemet (category Native American history of Massachusetts)
people as a warrior and a leader. His name was translated as "the Moone God" by Puritan Roger Williams in his A Key Into the Language of America. (1643/reprint...
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Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media network funded by the United States of America. It is the largest and...
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