Western Abenaki
Abenaki (Western); Abnaki (Western); Abnaki, Western; Abenaki; Abenaqui; St. Francis; Abnaki; St Francis;
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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.
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Vermont and New Hampshire and Quebec. The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River.
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Attempts are underway there to revive the language and teach it in the Vermont school system
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Vermont and New Hampshire and Quebec. The largest modern community is in Quebec, at the Odanak Reserve on the St. François River.
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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).
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Canada: 10 (Golla 2007). US: 4 (2012 D. Stevens).
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"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.
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
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