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Quiripi is the name of a Native American language of the Algonquin language family, specifically the Algonquin-Mosan branch.
It was spoken by the Quinnipiack tribe of south-central Connecticut.
It is theorized to be extinct due to the dwindling and disappearance of the Quinnipiack tribe during the colonial period.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /quiripi.html   (139 words)

  
 Quiripi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quiripi is the name of a Native American language of the Algonquian language family.
No longer spoken, it is documented in Puritan religious materials from the seventeenth century.
It is believed this word means either "long water river" or "long water country".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quiripi   (111 words)

  
 Mattabesic
Mattabesic is the name of a single village along the Connecticut River, and its use to describe this group of independent tribes is entirely arbitrary.
For historical reasons, the Wappinger, who lived in New York on the east side of the lower Hudson River, have been covered as a separate tribe.
It is identical to the dialect spoken by the Metoac tribes of central Long Island and the Wappinger on the east side of the lower Hudson River.
www.dickshovel.com /matta.html   (4118 words)

  
 Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 39, no. 1
Resurrecting Wampano (Quiripi) from the Dead: Phonological Preliminaries
It is known today through short vocabularies recorded over the centuries and one long text dating from the mid-seventeenth century.
An investigation of the processes involved in this phenomenon demonstrates that speakers have recourse to metapragmatic projection of the nonreferential function (Silverstein 1976) of second person pronouns from first language to second language in ideologically rationalizing and enacting their honorific/nonhonorific option.
www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v39-1.html   (644 words)

  
 Life of the Quinnipiac tribe - Lifestyles
The Quinnipiac tribe was comprised of four distinct groups: the Momauguin band in New Haven, The Montowese band in North Haven, the Shaumpishuh band in Guilford and the Totoket band in Branford.
The four bands were unified as a tribe by their language, Quiripi, a dialect of Eastern Algonquian.
Their culture, blood relations and geographical location of their villages also kept them together.
www.quchronicle.com /news/2002/11/28/Lifestyles/Life-Of.The.Quinnipiac.Tribe-328233.shtml   (532 words)

  
 Long Island History: Jefferson's Lost Legacy
Among the group, Jefferson wrote that he found ``but three persons of this tribe now who can speak its language.
They are old women.'' From two of them, Bragdon said, Jefferson compiled a glossary of words, which were similar to vocabularies of Connecticut Indians who spoke an Algonquian language called Quiripi.
A month before they arrived on Long Island, Jefferson wrote to a family member that he and Madison would soon leave on a trip to Lake George, in upstate New York.
www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs209a,0,6305729.story   (918 words)

  
 The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Algonkian Langs. pt. 2
Languages on this page so far are Abnaki, Menomini, Micmac, Mohican, Ojibwa, Pamlico, Passamaquoddy, Quiripi, Shawnee, Wampanoag, and Wiyot.
Return to List of Types of Languages
updated 5-1-2003 Quiripi (Algonkian-Mosan), also called Quinnipiac, belongs to the Algonkian- Mosan family of languages.
www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/algonk2h.htm   (1694 words)

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