Susquehannock language

Susquehannock
Native to Northeastern United States
Extinct 1763
Iroquoian

  • Northern

    • Lakes Iroquoian
      • Five Nations
        • Susquehannock
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sqn
Linguist list
 sqn
Glottolog susq1241[1]

pre-contact distribution of the Susquehannock language

Susquehannock is an extinct language that once was spoken by the Native American Susquehannocks. It is a part of the Iroquoian language family.

Little of the Susquehannock language has been preserved. The only source is a Vocabula Mahakuassica compiled by the Swedish missionary Johannes Campanius during the 1640s and published with additions in 1702.[2] Campanius's vocabulary contains only 89 words but is sufficient to show that Susquehannock was a northern Iroquoian language closely related to those of the Five Nations.[3] Surviving remnants of the Susquehannock language include the river names Conestoga, Juniata, and Swatara.

Notes

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Susquehannock". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Thomas Campanius Holm. 1702. A short description of the province of New Sweden, tr. Peter S. du Ponceau. Pennsylvania Historical Society Memoirs 3:1:1-166. (Reprinted 1834 in Philadelphia)
    cited in Marianne Mithun. The Languages of Native America (1999, Cambridge University Press).
  3. ↑ Marianne Mithun. 1981. "Stalking the Susquehannocks," International Journal of American Linguistics 47:1-26.

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