Etchemin language

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Etchemin
Native toUnited States
RegionMaine
Extinct17th century[1]
Language codes
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GlottologNone

Etchemin was a language of the Algonquian language family, spoken in early colonial times on the coast of Maine. The word Etchemin is thought to be either French alteration of an Algonquian word for 'canoe' or a translation of Skidijn, the native word for people in use by the inhabitants of the St. John, Passamaquoddy and St. Croix Rivers.

The only known record of the Etchemin language is a list of the numbers from one to ten recorded by

Malecite-Passamaquoddy language
.

References

  1. the Linguist List

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