Mohican
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- noun
- /moʊˈhiːkən/
- Few written records remain of the Mohican language, which was spoken along the Hudson River.
Examples
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The last fluent speakers of Mohican died in the early twentieth century.
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Scholars have tried to reconstruct the vocabulary of Mohican using historical documents.
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The Mohican language was once spoken in the northeastern United States.
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Many linguists study the Mohican language to understand its structure.
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Few written records remain of the Mohican language, which was spoken along the Hudson River.
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Scholars have tried to reconstruct the vocabulary of the Mohican language using historical documents.
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The last fluent speakers of the Mohican language died in the early twentieth century.
Synonyms
A language the Mohican people once spoke in the northeastern United States that no one now speaks
A Native American language once spoken by the Mohican people in the northeastern United States
The language of a Native American group from the northeastern United States
Compounds
A Native American language once spoken by the Mohican people in the northeastern United States
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mohican for the language comes from the same tribal name, Muh-he-con-neok, often said to mean 'people of the river'. So the Mohican language is simply the speech of those river people.