Mahican (also known as Mohican) is an extinct language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a member of the Algic language family. Aboriginally, speakers of Mahican lived along the upper Hudson River in New York State, extending as far north as Lake Champlain, east to the Green Mountains in Vermont, and west near Scoharie Creek in New York State. Conflict with Mohawks and European encroachment triggered displacement of the Mahicans.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Language/region
dbpedia-owl:Language/states
dbpedia-owl:region
dbpedia-owl:states
dbpprop:abstract
  • Mahican (also known as Mohican) is an extinct language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a member of the Algic language family. Aboriginally, speakers of Mahican lived along the upper Hudson River in New York State, extending as far north as Lake Champlain, east to the Green Mountains in Vermont, and west near Scoharie Creek in New York State. Conflict with Mohawks and European encroachment triggered displacement of the Mahicans. After a series of dislocations some Mahicans were forced to relocate to Wisconsin in the 1820s and 1830s, while others moved to several communities in Canada where they lost their Mahican identity. Mahican became extinct in the early twentieth century, with the last recorded documentation of Mahican made in the 1930s. Two distinct Mahican dialects have been identified, Moravian and Stockbridge. These two dialects emerged after 1740 as aggregations arising from the dislocation of Mahican and other groups. The extent of Mahican dialect variation prior to this period is uncertain. The Stockbridge dialect emerged at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and included groups of New York Mahicans, and members of other linguistic groups such as Wappinger (a local Munsee band), Housatonic, Wyachtonok, and others. After a complex migration history, the Stockbridge group moved to Wisconsin, where they combined with Munsee Delaware migrants from southwestern Ontario, and are now known as the Stockbridge-Munsee. The Moravian dialect arose from population aggregations centred at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Some Mahican groups that had been affiliated beginning in 1740 with the Moravian Church in New York and Connecticut moved in 1746 to Bethlehem. Another group affiliated with the Moravians moved to Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and subsequent to a massacre by settlers some members of these groups fled to Canada with Munsee Moravian converts, ultimately settling at what is now Moraviantown, where they have completely merged with the dominant Delaware population. Another group moved to Ohsweken at Six Nations, Ontario, where they merged with other groups at that location. Mahican linguistic materials consist of a variety of materials collected by missionaries, linguists, and others, including an eighteenth century manuscript dictionary compiled by Johann Schmick, a Moravian missionary. In the twentieth century linguists Truman Michelson and Morris Swadesh collected some Mahican materials from surviving speakers in Wisconsin. Mahican historical phonology has been studied based upon the Schmick dictionary manuscript, tracing the historical changes affecting the pronunciation of words between Proto-Algonquian and the Moravian dialect of Mahican, as reflected in Schmick’s dictionary. The similarities between Mahican and the Delaware languages Munsee and Unami have been acknowledged in studies of Mahican linguistic history, and in one classification Mahican and the Delaware languages are assigned to a Delawaran subgroup of Eastern Algonquian.
  • Le mohican est une langue morte, appartenant à la branche orientale des langues algonquiennes. Originellement, les Mohicans, ceux qui parlaient cette langue, vivaient le long de l'Hudson dans l'état de New York, jusqu'au Lac Champlain, à l'est des Montagnes Vertes dans le Vermont, et à l'est jusqu'à la Scoharie Creek dans l'état de New York. Les conflits les opposant aux Mohawks et l'arrivée des Européens qui empiétèrent sur leur territoire les forcèrent à se déplacer. Après une série de déménagements, la majorité des Mohicans s'installa enfin au Wisconsin durant les années 1820 et 1830, alors que d'autres s'installèrent dans plusieurs communautés du Canada où ils perdirent leur identité mohicane. Deux dialectes mohicans distincts ont été identifiés, le moravien et le Stockbridge . Ces deux dialectes sont apparus après 1740 après les regroupements résultant de la dislocation des Mohicans et d'autres groupes. La dernière personne parlant le mohican est morte dans les années 1930.
dbpprop:fam
dbpprop:familycolor
  • American
dbpprop:iso
  • mjy
dbpprop:name
  • Mahican
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:region
dbpprop:speakers
  • extinct
dbpprop:states
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbpprop:wordnet_type
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Mahican (also known as Mohican) is an extinct language of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language family, itself a member of the Algic language family. Aboriginally, speakers of Mahican lived along the upper Hudson River in New York State, extending as far north as Lake Champlain, east to the Green Mountains in Vermont, and west near Scoharie Creek in New York State. Conflict with Mohawks and European encroachment triggered displacement of the Mahicans.
  • Le mohican est une langue morte, appartenant à la branche orientale des langues algonquiennes. Originellement, les Mohicans, ceux qui parlaient cette langue, vivaient le long de l'Hudson dans l'état de New York, jusqu'au Lac Champlain, à l'est des Montagnes Vertes dans le Vermont, et à l'est jusqu'à la Scoharie Creek dans l'état de New York. Les conflits les opposant aux Mohawks et l'arrivée des Européens qui empiétèrent sur leur territoire les forcèrent à se déplacer.
rdfs:label
  • Mahican language
  • Mohican (langue)
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Mahican
foaf:page
is dbpprop:child of
is dbpprop:redirect of