Beothuk language
- Beothuk language
The Beothuk language (also called Beothukan) was spoken by the indigenous
Beothuk people of Newfoundland. As the Beothuk areextinct and few written accounts of their language exist, little is known about it. It is sometimes assumed to be part of the neighbouringAlgonquian language family, but there is insufficient evidence to draw any strong conclusions, and this theory has not gained general acceptance. The few words of the language which are known were provided by captives such asDemasduwit andShanawdithit .A recording of the Beothuk language in song, as performed by a 75-year old native woman named Santu, was made in 1910 by the American anthropologist Frank Speck, and resurfaced at the very end of the twentieth century. The text is uncertain and not understood. Some sources give the year 1929, but the 1910 date is confirmed in Speck's book "Beothuk and Micmac", New York 1922, p. 67.
Beothuk has the
ISO 639-3 code bue.External links
* [http://www.mun.ca/rels/native/beothuk/beo2gifs/texts/HOW19c.html Text including Beothuk vocabulary]
* [http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=bue Report for Beothuk on Linguist List]
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