ABENAKI LANGUAGE

'Abenaki' (also 'Abnaki') is the cover term for a complex of dialects of one of the Eastern Algonquian languages, originally spoken in what is now Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Modern 'Western Abenaki' is currently spoken by a very small handful of Abenaki elders in Odanak, Quebec. 'Eastern Abenaki' was until quite recently spoken by elders of the Penobscot tribe in eastern Maine, although it is now extinct[1]. Other dialects of Eastern Abenaki, such as Caniba and Aroosagunticook, now extinct, are documented in French-language materials from the colonial period.
Western and Eastern Abenaki share many similarities but are also different in striking ways, not only in vocabulary but also phonology.

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References

★ Day, Gordon M. 1994a. Western Abenaki Dictionary. Volume 1: Abenaki to English. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 128.

★ Day, Gordon M. 1994b. Western Abenaki Dictionary. Volume 2: English to Abenaki. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series, Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 128.

★ Abenaki Harvey, Chris

★ Laurent, Joseph. 1884. ''New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues.'' Quebec: Joseph Laurent. Reprinted 2006: Vancouver: Global Language Press, ISBN 0-9738924-7-1

★ Penobscot-Abenaki Pronunciation and Spelling Guide

★ http://www.native-languages.org/abenaki.htm