Loup language
| Loup | |
|---|---|
| Nipmuck? | |
| Pronunciation | [lu] |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Massachusetts, Connecticut |
| Extinct | 18th century |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:xlo – Loup Axlb – Loup B |
Loup is an extinct Algonquian language, or possibly languages, of colonial New England. Loup 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.[1]
References
- ^ Victor Golla, 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages
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