Loup language

Loup
Pronunciation [lu]
Native to United States
Region Massachusetts, Connecticut
Ethnicity Nipmuck?
Extinct 18th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
xlo – Loup A
xlb – Loup B
xlo Loup A
  xlb Loup B
Glottolog loup1243  Loup A[1]

Loup is an extinct Algonquian language, or possibly group of languages, spoken in colonial New England. Loup ("Wolf") was a French colonial ethnographic term, and usage was inconsistent. In modern literature, it refers to two varieties, Loup A and Loup B.[2]

Attestation

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.[3]

Chaubunagungamaug lake sign, in Nipmuk and English

Phonology

The phonology of Loup A (Nipmuck), reconstructed by Gustafson 2000:

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal/
Postalveolar		 Velar Glottal
plain pal. plain lab.
Plosive p t tʲ k (kʷ)
Nasal m n
Affricate tʃ
Fricative s h
Lateral l
Approximant w j
Vowels
Short Long Nasal
Close i iː
Mid e
Open a aː ã
Back-mid o oː
Back-close u

The vowel sounds likely have the same phonetic quality as other southern New England Algonquian languages. The short vowels /i o e a/ may represent the sounds as /ɪ, /ʊ/, /ɛ,ə/, and /ʌ/, while the long vowels /iː/, /oː/, and /ã/ correspond to /i/, /o/, and /ã/.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Loup A". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Goddard, Ives (To appear). "The 'Loup' Languages of Western Massachusetts: The Dialectal Diversity of Southern New England Algonquian". Papers of the 44th Algonquian Conference. SUNY Press: 104–138. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ Victor Golla, 2007. Atlas of the World's Languages
  4. ↑ Aubin, George F. (1980). Papers of the 11th Algonquian Conference. Comments on Cotton's "Vocabulary...": Ottawa: Carleton University. pp. 54–60.
  5. ↑ Gustafson, Holly Suzanne (2000). A Grammar of the Nipmuck Language (PDF). Deparament of Linguistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
  6. ↑ Costa, David J. (2007). The Dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian (PDF).



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