Língua mohegan-pequot

Mohegan-Pequot (também chamada Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, Stockbridge, Shinnecock-Poosepatuck – seus dialetos) é uma extinta língua Algonquiana que já foi falada no que são hoje a Nova Inglaterra e Long Island.^[1]

Mohegan-Pequot
Falado(a) em:	Estados Unidos
Região:	sul da Nova Inglaterra
Total de falantes:	extinta em 1908
Família:	Álgica  Algonquiana   Algonquiana Oriental    Mohegan-Pequot
Códigos de língua
ISO 639-1:	--
ISO 639-2:	---
ISO 639-3:	xpq

Mohegan, Pequot, Montaukett, Niantic, Shinnecock e outros (1600)

Fonologia

Consoantes^[2]

	labial	alveolar	alveo-palatal	velar plana	velar labial	glotal	palatal
oclusiva	p	t		k	kʷ
nasal	m	n
africada			tʃ
fricativa		s z	ʃ dʒ			h
aproximante			w				j

Vogais^[2]

ɒ, ἁ, i:, ōō, ô, ʌ

Escrita

A língua Mohegan usa o alfabeto latino com poucas letras:

• vogais – á, a, i, o, ô, u
• consoantes – c, h, k, l, m, p, q, s, sh, t, w, y

Notas

1. Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 16th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics
2. Fielding, Stephanie (2006), A Modern Mohegan Dictionary 2006 Ed.

Bibliografia

• Cowan, William. Pequot from Stiles to Speck. International Journal of American Linguistics. The University of Chicago Press. Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul., 1973), pp. 164–172
• De Forest, John W. “The Lord’s Prayer in the Pequot Tongue.” In History of the Indians of Connecticut. 1852. Reprint, Brighton, MI: Native American Book Publishers, 1994.
• Michelson, Truman. "The Linguistic Classification of Pequot-Mohegan." American Anthropologist 26 (1924): 295. doi:10.1525/aa.1924.26.2.02a00240
• Pickering, John, ed. "Doctor Edwards' Observations on the Mohegan Languages." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Series 2 Volume 10 (1823): 81-160.
• Prince, J. Dyneley and Frank G. Speck. "Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language." American Anthropologist 6 (1904): 18-45. doi:10.1525/aa.1904.6.1.02a00030
• Prince, J. Dyneley and Frank G. Speck. "The Modern Pequots and Their Language." American Anthropologist 5 (1903): 193-212. doi:10.1525/aa.1903.5.2.02a00010
• Speck, Frank. "A Modern Mohegan-Pequot Text." American Anthropologist 6 (1904): 469-76. doi:10.1525/aa.1904.6.4.02a00070
• Speck, Frank and Fidelia Fielding. "A Pequot Mohegan Witchcraft Tale." Journal of American Folklore 16 (1903): 104-6.
• Speck, Frank. "Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary." Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 43 (1903): 199-287.
• Speck, Frank. Speck Papers and Photograph Collection. (17 microfilm reels)
• Speck, Frank. "Text of the Pequot Sermon." American Anthropologist 5 (1903): 199-212.

Ligações externas

• Mashantucket Pequot Research Library, Pequot and Related Languages, A Bibliography
• Mohegan Language Project, website with assorted Mohegan Language resources
• A Modern Mohegan Dictionary (2006 Edition)—contains Guide to Using the Dictionary, Mohegan Grammar Paradigms, Mohegan to English Dictionary, and English to Mohegan Word Finder
• Mohegan-English Dictionary (November 2008 edition)^{[ligação inativa]}—update of the Mohegan to English Dictionary section of above
• Mahican vs. Mohegan
• OLAC resources in and about the Mohegan-Pequot language
• Mohegan-Pequot – Site
• Mohegan-Pequot em Native-Languages
• Mohegan-Pequot em Omniglot.com
• Mohegan-Pequot em Ethnologue