Malecite Amis

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Malecite Amis is a dialect of the Eastern Algonquian Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language traditionally spoken by the Maliseet (Wolastoqiyik) people of northeastern North America.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Malecite Amis canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Algonquian dialect ⓘ
dialect ⓘ
associatedPeople Maliseet ⓘ
Wolastoqiyik ⓘ
belongsToCulture Maliseet culture ⓘ
Wolastoqiyik culture ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Passamaquoddy language ⓘ
culturalRole marker of Wolastoqiyik identity ⓘ
vehicle of Maliseet oral tradition ⓘ
endonymLanguage Wolastoqey language ⓘ
ethnicLanguageOf Maliseet people ⓘ
geographicDistribution Canada ⓘ
Maine ⓘ
Maritime provinces of Canada ⓘ
linked to: Maritime Provinces

New Brunswick ⓘ
United States ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Maliseet dialect ⓘ
Wolastoqey dialect ⓘ
hasAncestor Proto-Algonquian ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
ISO639Macrolanguage Maliseet-Passamaquoddy ⓘ
languageFamily Algonquian languages ⓘ
languageStatus endangered language variety ⓘ
linguisticType polysynthetic language variety ⓘ
morphologyType fusional-polysynthetic ⓘ
partOf Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language continuum ⓘ
region northeastern North America ⓘ
relatedTo Passamaquoddy dialects ⓘ
script Latin script ⓘ
spokenAlong Saint John River (Wolastoq) region ⓘ
subdivisionOf Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language ⓘ
subfamily Eastern Algonquian languages ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers Maliseet people ⓘ
Wolastoqiyik ⓘ
usedIn ceremonial contexts ⓘ
community life of Maliseet people ⓘ
traditional storytelling ⓘ
wordOrder flexible word order ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amis language → hasDialect → Malecite Amis ⓘ