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Conestoga

^{[aka Susquehannock (English), Andaste (French), Minqua (Netherlands Dutch)]}

Classification: Iroquoian

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ALSO KNOWN AS		Susquehannock (English), Andaste (French), Minqua (Netherlands Dutch)
CLASSIFICATION		Iroquoian
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sqn
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		The Conestoga language is known only from an 89 word vocabulary collected in 1696 and appended to a Delaware language translation of a Lutheran catechism translated by the Swedish missionary Johan Campanius,

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Smith (1608) reports the location as being "several days journey from the head of Chesapeake Bay."

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