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Piscataway language
Extinct Algonquian language of Maryland, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway, a dominant chiefdom in southern Maryland on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay at time of contact with English settlers.[2] Piscataway, also known as Conoy (from the Iroquois ethnonym for the tribe), is considered a dialect of Nanticoke.[3]
Piscataway | |
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Conoy | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Maryland |
Extinct | 1748 |
Algic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | psy |
Glottolog | pisc1239 |
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This designation is based on the scant evidence available for the Piscataway language. The Doeg tribe, then located in present-day Northern Virginia, are also thought to have spoken a form of the same language. These dialects were intermediate between the Native American language Lenape spoken to the north of this area (in present-day Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut) and the Powhatan language, formerly spoken to the south, in what is now Tidewater Virginia.