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Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian is an extinct language belonging to the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages. It was spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater Virginia. It became extinct around the 1790s after speakers switched to English. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}}{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} The sole documentary evidence for this language is two short wordlists recorded around the time of first European contact. William Strachey recorded about 500 words and Captain John Smith recorded only about 50 words. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}}{{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} Smith also reported the existence of a pidgin form of Powhatan, but virtually nothing is known of it. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} Strachey’s material was collected sometime between 1610 and 1611, and probably written up from his notes in 1612 and 1613, after he had returned to England. It was never published in his lifetime, although he made a second copy in 1618. The second copy was published in 1849, and the first in 1955. {{#invoke:Footnotes|sfn}} Smith’s material was collected between 1607 and 1609 and published in 1612 and again in 1624. There is no indication of the location where he collected his material. In 1975, Frank Siebert, a linguist specializing in Algonquian languages, published a book-length study claiming the reconstitution of the phonology of the language.
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