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:anthro_papers-1155 2023-05-15T12:58:40+02:00 Malian’s Song – Abenaki Language Glossary Bruchac, Margaret 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/152 https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=anthro_papers unknown ScholarlyCommons https://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/152 https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=anthro_papers Department of Anthropology Papers Anthropology Social and Behavioral Sciences text 2006 ftunivpenn 2021-01-04T21:49:05Z 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”) Text 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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