Langenesis

Algic family

Massachusett

1600 CE – today Living

Massachusett (1600 CE – today) is a living Algic language. Lineage: Proto-Algic → Proto-Algonquian → Proto-Eastern Algonquian → Massachusett.

See Massachusett on the interactive map
ISO 639-3
wam

Language of John Eliot's 1663 Bible, the first Bible printed in the Americas. It had no speakers from the 19th century until the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project revived it from 1993; it again has a few native child speakers.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Algicc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Algonquianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Proto-Eastern Algonquianc. 0 CE – 800 CE
  4. Massachusett1600 CE – today

Sister languages 3

Also descended from Proto-Eastern Algonquian.

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