Loup A
| Loup | |
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| Pronunciation | [lu] |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Massachusetts, Connecticut |
| Ethnicity | Nipmuck? |
| Extinct | 18th century |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: xlo – Loup A xlb – Loup B |
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Linguist list
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xlo Loup A |
xlb Loup B |
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| Glottolog |
loup1243 (Loup A)
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Loup is an extinct Algonquian language, or possibly group of languages, spoken in colonial New England. Loup ("Wolf") was a French colonial ethnographic term, and usage was inconsistent. In modern literature, it refers to two varieties, Loup A and Loup B.
Loup A, which may be the language of the Nipmuck, is principally attested from a word list recorded from refugees by the St. Francis mission to the Abenaki in Quebec. The descendants of these refugees became speakers of Western Abenaki in the eighteenth century. Loup B refers to a second word list, which shows extensive dialectal variation. This may not be a distinct language, but just notes on the speech of various New England Algonquian refugees in French missions.
The phonology of Loup A (Nipmuck):
Consonants
Vowels
The vowel sounds likely have the same phonetic quality as other southern New England Algonquian languages. The short vowels /i o e a/ may represent the sounds as /ɪ, /ʊ/, /ɛ,ə/, and /ʌ/, while the long vowels /iː/, /oː/, and /ã/ correspond to /i/, /o/, and /ã/.
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