Nanticoke language

Nanticoke
Nanticoke
Native to	United States
Region	Delaware, Maryland
Ethnicity	Nanticoke people
Extinct	1840s, with the death of Lydia Clark
Language family	Algic Algonquian Eastern Algonquian Nanticockan Nanticoke; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nnt
Glottolog	nant1249

Nanticoke is an Algonquian language formerly spoken in Delaware and Maryland, United States. The same language was spoken by several neighboring tribes, including the Nanticoke, which constituted the paramount chiefdom; the Choptank, the Assateague, and probably also the Piscataway and the Doeg.

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