Western Abenaki
[également appelé Abenaki (Western), Abnaki (Western), Abnaki, Western]Classification : Algic
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Classification : Algic
·en danger critique
Abenaki (Western), Abnaki (Western), Abnaki, Western, Abenaki, Abenaqui, St. Francis, Abnaki, St Francis |
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Algic, Algonquian, Eastern Algonquian |
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ISO 639-3 |
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Informations incomplètes “North America” (7-41) . Victor Golla and Ives Goddard and Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco (2008) , Chris Moseley and Ron Asher · Routledge
The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River, where a handful of elderly fluent speakers survive. In addition about 2,000 people of Western Abenaki descent live in Vermont around the northern end of Lake Champlain.
English
Quebec, Vermont
It was spoken in New Hampshire and adjacent areas of Vermont. The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River, where a handful of elderly fluent speakers survive. In addition about 2,000 people of Western Abenaki descent live in Vermont around the northern end of Lake Champlain. Attempts are underway there to revive the language and teach it in the Vermont school system. Western Abenaki was extensively documented by a series of village schoolmasters from the Odanak community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Joseph Laurent, and by Gordon Day, who published a dictionary.
Informations incomplètes “Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages” . Christopher Moseley (2007) Routledge
2,000
"handful of elderly fluent speakers"
Vermont and New Hampshire and Quebec. The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River.
Informations incomplètes “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
1800
Speaker number data: (P. Tamburro 2006). Some L1 speakers only passively retain the language and (or) are semi fluent. Ethnic population: 1,800 including Eastern Abnaki in USA (1982 SIL).
Quebec, Odanak Reserve on the Saint Francois River.
Informations incomplètes “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
"handful of elderly fluent speakers"
The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River, where a handful of elderly fluent speakers survive. In addition about 2,000 people of Western Abenaki descent live in Vermont around the northern end of Lake Champlain.
Informations incomplètes “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
Canada: 10 (Golla 2007).
US: 4 (2012 D. Stevens).
Attempts are under way in by Canada and the US to revive the language.
Canada: Quebec: Odanak Reserve on Saint Francois River.
US: Vermont: north end of Lake Champlain.