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Abenaki

The Abenaki word (also is the term used to cover a range of dialects Algonquin East, originally spoken in what is now Vermont , New Hampshire , the Massachusetts and northern Maine.

The Western Abenaki is now spoken by a tiny handful of elders in the reserve Abenaki of Odanak at Quebec. The eastern Abenaki were still spoke recently with tribal elders Penobscot in eastern Maine, but has now disappeared. Other dialects of Eastern Abenaki, such as Caniba and Aroosagunticook , now extinct, are documented in the French language during the colonial period.

The Eastern and Western Abenaki share many similarities, not only in vocabulary but also phonology.

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