Etchemin language

language
name=Etchemin
familycolor=American
states=United States
region=Maine
speakers=extinct
fam1=Algic
fam2=Algonquian
fam3=Eastern Algonquian
iso3=etc

Etchemin was a language of the Algonquian language family, spoken in early colonial times on the coast of Maine. The word Etchemin is a French alteration of an Algonquian word for "canoe". The only known record of the Etchemin language is a list of the numbers from one to ten taken down by Marc Lescarbot in the early 17th century and published in his book "the History of New France". The numerals in the list match those of Malecite-Passamaquoddy, Eastern Abenaki as well as languages of southern New England such as Wampanoag, but as a set do not match any other Algonquian language. The Etchemin language disappeared not long after Lescarbot's visit, and it is unknown what became of the tribe.

All other language records called 'Etchemin' appear actually to be the neighboring Malecite-Passamaquoddy language.

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* [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=etc Linguist List entry for Etchemin]
* [http://www.native-languages.org/lostalg.htm]

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