The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family, formerly spoken by several tribes inhabiting coastal regions of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. It was also commonly referred to as the Natick, Wômpanâak (Wampanoag), Pokanoket, or Indian language. The language was used by John Eliot to print the first Bible in the Americas in 1663. The adoption of the orthography of the Bible led to widespread literacy amongst the indigenous peoples of southern New England. The language went extinct in the late 19th century, but is currently being revived by Wampanoag tribal member Jessie Little Doe Baird, who started work on the Wômpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993. Classes for learners have been set up in four Wampanoag communities, and a handful of native speakers are now growing up in the language. An immersion charter school is set to open in 2015, with Wampanoag as the language of instruction for core subjects. As the school is a charter school, it will be available to both tribal and non-tribal citizens of regional Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Tribe Reclaims Language Not Spoken for Six Generations
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language. Faith Lapidus reports.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/massachusetts-tribe-reclaims-language-not-spoken-in-six-generations/4136149.html
published: 25 Nov 2017
Massachusetts tribe's ancestors reclaim lost language
(22 Nov 2017) LEADIN
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language.
Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century
STORYLINE
Sitting in a circle these toddlers sing nursery rhymes which sound familiar - although the language probably doesn't.
They're all students at The Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or "Children's House", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors hosted a harvest celebration with the Pilgrims in 1621 which helped form the basis for the country's Thanksgiving tradition.
The 19 children here are all from Wampanoag households and are...
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Wopanaak Language class has started its first high school curriculum class at Mashpee High School this past fall semester. The language class is the first of its kind for the language and the school and is being offered as a credited language coarse for all students. To keep up with the content you care about from MashpeeTV, please subscribe to our YouTube channel!
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The Native American Wampanoag language is being revived in Mashpee, Massachusetts, with the help of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. The language was dormant for generations, but now it has a new generation of speakers.
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The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language. Faith Lapidus re...
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language. Faith Lapidus reports.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/massachusetts-tribe-reclaims-language-not-spoken-in-six-generations/4136149.html
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language. Faith Lapidus reports.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/massachusetts-tribe-reclaims-language-not-spoken-in-six-generations/4136149.html
(22 Nov 2017) LEADIN
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost lang...
(22 Nov 2017) LEADIN
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language.
Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century
STORYLINE
Sitting in a circle these toddlers sing nursery rhymes which sound familiar - although the language probably doesn't.
They're all students at The Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or "Children's House", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors hosted a harvest celebration with the Pilgrims in 1621 which helped form the basis for the country's Thanksgiving tradition.
The 19 children here are all from Wampanoag households and are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century until the tribe started an effort to reclaim it more than two decades ago. The immersion school is now in its second year.
"I do see progress. We have some children that are pre-verbal here and for their first words to actually be Wampanoag words is amazing," says Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher, Tia Pocknett.
"Even though, like, you know, we have a classroom of 19 children, even though that's 19 it's gonna trickle because those children have family members and they're gonna start using that and as we keep going with process of the school and working with younger and younger kids, the more language is gonna come back to our communities."
At the public high school, seven students are enrolled in the district's first Wampanoag language class, which is funded and staffed by the tribe.
Further up the road, volunteers host free language learning sessions for families each Friday at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum.
And within the tribe's government building, one floor up from the immersion school, tribal elders gather twice a week for an hourlong lesson before lunch.
Last week the Massachusetts Statehouse hosted a ceremony to mark the first Thanksgiving with Pilgrims. The event began with a traditional song and prayer.
The movement to revitalise native American languages started gaining traction in the 1990s and today, most of country's 550 plus tribes are engaged in some form of language preservation work.
But the Mashpee Wampanoag stand out because they're one of the few tribes to have brought back their language despite not having any surviving adult speakers.
Jessie Baird (or "Little Doe" as she's known) was in her 20s, had no college degree and zero training in linguistics when a dream inspired her to start learning Wampanoag in the early 1990s.
Working with linguistic experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide.
She and others drew on historical documents written in Wampanoag, including personal diaries of tribal members, Colonial-era land claims and a version of the King James Bible printed in 1663 that is considered one of the oldest ever printed in the Western hemisphere.
"Wampanoag was the first language … first American-Indian language to use an alphabet to write in the language. And the first King James version of the Bible was printed in Wampanoag in 1663 on a printing press in Cambridge at what is now Harvard University," she explains.
To fill in the gaps, they turned to words, pronunciations and other auditory cues from related Algonquian languages still spoken today.
On the importance of reclaiming the ancient Wampanoag language Baird says:
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(22 Nov 2017) LEADIN
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language.
Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century
STORYLINE
Sitting in a circle these toddlers sing nursery rhymes which sound familiar - although the language probably doesn't.
They're all students at The Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or "Children's House", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors hosted a harvest celebration with the Pilgrims in 1621 which helped form the basis for the country's Thanksgiving tradition.
The 19 children here are all from Wampanoag households and are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century until the tribe started an effort to reclaim it more than two decades ago. The immersion school is now in its second year.
"I do see progress. We have some children that are pre-verbal here and for their first words to actually be Wampanoag words is amazing," says Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher, Tia Pocknett.
"Even though, like, you know, we have a classroom of 19 children, even though that's 19 it's gonna trickle because those children have family members and they're gonna start using that and as we keep going with process of the school and working with younger and younger kids, the more language is gonna come back to our communities."
At the public high school, seven students are enrolled in the district's first Wampanoag language class, which is funded and staffed by the tribe.
Further up the road, volunteers host free language learning sessions for families each Friday at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum.
And within the tribe's government building, one floor up from the immersion school, tribal elders gather twice a week for an hourlong lesson before lunch.
Last week the Massachusetts Statehouse hosted a ceremony to mark the first Thanksgiving with Pilgrims. The event began with a traditional song and prayer.
The movement to revitalise native American languages started gaining traction in the 1990s and today, most of country's 550 plus tribes are engaged in some form of language preservation work.
But the Mashpee Wampanoag stand out because they're one of the few tribes to have brought back their language despite not having any surviving adult speakers.
Jessie Baird (or "Little Doe" as she's known) was in her 20s, had no college degree and zero training in linguistics when a dream inspired her to start learning Wampanoag in the early 1990s.
Working with linguistic experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide.
She and others drew on historical documents written in Wampanoag, including personal diaries of tribal members, Colonial-era land claims and a version of the King James Bible printed in 1663 that is considered one of the oldest ever printed in the Western hemisphere.
"Wampanoag was the first language … first American-Indian language to use an alphabet to write in the language. And the first King James version of the Bible was printed in Wampanoag in 1663 on a printing press in Cambridge at what is now Harvard University," she explains.
To fill in the gaps, they turned to words, pronunciations and other auditory cues from related Algonquian languages still spoken today.
On the importance of reclaiming the ancient Wampanoag language Baird says:
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Wopanaak Language class has started its first high school curriculum class at Mashpee High School this past fall semester. The language class is the first of its kind for the language and the school and is being offered as a credited language coarse for all students. To keep up with the content you care about from MashpeeTV, please subscribe to our YouTube channel!
Wopanaak Language class has started its first high school curriculum class at Mashpee High School this past fall semester. The language class is the first of its kind for the language and the school and is being offered as a credited language coarse for all students. To keep up with the content you care about from MashpeeTV, please subscribe to our YouTube channel!
The Native American Wampanoag language is being revived in Mashpee, Massachusetts, with the help of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. The language was ...
The Native American Wampanoag language is being revived in Mashpee, Massachusetts, with the help of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. The language was dormant for generations, but now it has a new generation of speakers.
Shot by video journalist Elise Hugus for AJ+.
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The Native American Wampanoag language is being revived in Mashpee, Massachusetts, with the help of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. The language was dormant for generations, but now it has a new generation of speakers.
Shot by video journalist Elise Hugus for AJ+.
More info on the project: http://www.wlrp.org/home.htm
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Michael Wigge has to face a pronounciation challenge in Massachusetts during his trip 'Fifty States of Wigge' www.my-challenge-coach.com [email protected]
Michael Wigge has to face a pronounciation challenge in Massachusetts during his trip 'Fifty States of Wigge' www.my-challenge-coach.com [email protected]
Michael Wigge has to face a pronounciation challenge in Massachusetts during his trip 'Fifty States of Wigge' www.my-challenge-coach.com [email protected]
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language. Faith Lapidus reports.
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/massachusetts-tribe-reclaims-language-not-spoken-in-six-generations/4136149.html
(22 Nov 2017) LEADIN
The Massachusetts tribe whose ancestors shared a Thanksgiving meal with the Pilgrims nearly 400 years ago is reclaiming its long-lost language.
Almost 20 children from Wampanoag households are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century
STORYLINE
Sitting in a circle these toddlers sing nursery rhymes which sound familiar - although the language probably doesn't.
They're all students at The Mukayuhsak Weekuw, or "Children's House", an immersion school launched by the Cape Cod-based Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, whose ancestors hosted a harvest celebration with the Pilgrims in 1621 which helped form the basis for the country's Thanksgiving tradition.
The 19 children here are all from Wampanoag households and are being taught exclusively in Wopanaotooaok, a language that had not been spoken for at least a century until the tribe started an effort to reclaim it more than two decades ago. The immersion school is now in its second year.
"I do see progress. We have some children that are pre-verbal here and for their first words to actually be Wampanoag words is amazing," says Wampanoag Language Preschool teacher, Tia Pocknett.
"Even though, like, you know, we have a classroom of 19 children, even though that's 19 it's gonna trickle because those children have family members and they're gonna start using that and as we keep going with process of the school and working with younger and younger kids, the more language is gonna come back to our communities."
At the public high school, seven students are enrolled in the district's first Wampanoag language class, which is funded and staffed by the tribe.
Further up the road, volunteers host free language learning sessions for families each Friday at the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum.
And within the tribe's government building, one floor up from the immersion school, tribal elders gather twice a week for an hourlong lesson before lunch.
Last week the Massachusetts Statehouse hosted a ceremony to mark the first Thanksgiving with Pilgrims. The event began with a traditional song and prayer.
The movement to revitalise native American languages started gaining traction in the 1990s and today, most of country's 550 plus tribes are engaged in some form of language preservation work.
But the Mashpee Wampanoag stand out because they're one of the few tribes to have brought back their language despite not having any surviving adult speakers.
Jessie Baird (or "Little Doe" as she's known) was in her 20s, had no college degree and zero training in linguistics when a dream inspired her to start learning Wampanoag in the early 1990s.
Working with linguistic experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other tribal members, Baird developed a dictionary of Wampanoag and a grammar guide.
She and others drew on historical documents written in Wampanoag, including personal diaries of tribal members, Colonial-era land claims and a version of the King James Bible printed in 1663 that is considered one of the oldest ever printed in the Western hemisphere.
"Wampanoag was the first language … first American-Indian language to use an alphabet to write in the language. And the first King James version of the Bible was printed in Wampanoag in 1663 on a printing press in Cambridge at what is now Harvard University," she explains.
To fill in the gaps, they turned to words, pronunciations and other auditory cues from related Algonquian languages still spoken today.
On the importance of reclaiming the ancient Wampanoag language Baird says:
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Wopanaak Language class has started its first high school curriculum class at Mashpee High School this past fall semester. The language class is the first of its kind for the language and the school and is being offered as a credited language coarse for all students. To keep up with the content you care about from MashpeeTV, please subscribe to our YouTube channel!
The Native American Wampanoag language is being revived in Mashpee, Massachusetts, with the help of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project. The language was dormant for generations, but now it has a new generation of speakers.
Shot by video journalist Elise Hugus for AJ+.
More info on the project: http://www.wlrp.org/home.htm
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Michael Wigge has to face a pronounciation challenge in Massachusetts during his trip 'Fifty States of Wigge' www.my-challenge-coach.com [email protected]
The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family, formerly spoken by several tribes inhabiting coastal regions of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. It was also commonly referred to as the Natick, Wômpanâak (Wampanoag), Pokanoket, or Indian language. The language was used by John Eliot to print the first Bible in the Americas in 1663. The adoption of the orthography of the Bible led to widespread literacy amongst the indigenous peoples of southern New England. The language went extinct in the late 19th century, but is currently being revived by Wampanoag tribal member Jessie Little Doe Baird, who started work on the Wômpanâak Language Reclamation Project in 1993. Classes for learners have been set up in four Wampanoag communities, and a handful of native speakers are now growing up in the language. An immersion charter school is set to open in 2015, with Wampanoag as the language of instruction for core subjects. As the school is a charter school, it will be available to both tribal and non-tribal citizens of regional Massachusetts.