Malian’s Song – Abenaki Language Glossary
The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or white light (wôban), and land (-aki) with an animate plural ending to indicate the people who dwell in that place (-ak). During the 1700s, English, French, and Dutch attempts to pronounce...
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ftunivpenn:oai:repository.upenn.edu:20.500.14332/1418 2024-02-04T09:52:09+01:00 Malian’s Song – Abenaki Language Glossary Bruchac, Margaret 2006-01-01 application/pdf https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1418 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14332/1418 unknown https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/1418 Posted with permission from the Vermont Folklife Center (https://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/). 152 Department of Anthropology Papers Vermont Folklife Center published Anthropology Social and Behavioral Sciences Article 2006 ftunivpenn https://doi.org/20.500.14332/1418 2024-01-06T23:25:22Z The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or white light (wôban), and land (-aki) with an animate plural ending to indicate the people who dwell in that place (-ak). During the 1700s, English, French, and Dutch attempts to pronounce Wôbanakiak or Wôbanaki resulted in many different spellings - Abnaki, Abanaki, Abenaki, Banakee, Wabanaki, etc. - that appear in colonial records. The most common modern pronunciations of Abenaki are the following: 1) Abenaki (stress the first syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “lab” and “e” as in “end”) 2) Abénaquis (stress the second syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “ah” and “e” as in “end”) 3) Abnaki (stress the first syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “lab”) 4) Abanaki (stress the first and third syllables, and pronounce “a” as in “lah”) Article in Journal/Newspaper abenaki University of Pennsylvania: ScholaryCommons@Penn |
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The tribal name Abenaki is adapted from the original Wôbanakiak, a noun that combines the morphemes for dawn or white light (wôban), and land (-aki) with an animate plural ending to indicate the people who dwell in that place (-ak). During the 1700s, English, French, and Dutch attempts to pronounce Wôbanakiak or Wôbanaki resulted in many different spellings - Abnaki, Abanaki, Abenaki, Banakee, Wabanaki, etc. - that appear in colonial records. The most common modern pronunciations of Abenaki are the following: 1) Abenaki (stress the first syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “lab” and “e” as in “end”) 2) Abénaquis (stress the second syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “ah” and “e” as in “end”) 3) Abnaki (stress the first syllable, and pronounce “a” as in “lab”) 4) Abanaki (stress the first and third syllables, and pronounce “a” as in “lah”) |
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152 Department of Anthropology Papers Vermont Folklife Center published |
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