Quiripi Language (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quiripi is the name of a Native American language (also known as the Proto Eastern Algonquian - Archaic (PEA-A) R-Dialect), spoken by the Quinnipiac - the indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut. One of the earliest Quiripi vocabularies was compiled by Rev. Abraham Pierson in 1658, during his ministry at Branford, Connecticut. His work consisted of a 67-page bi-lingual collection of indigenous words. In 1997, Blair A. Rudes identified the dialect as Wampano (Quiripi). He recognized that the language had been spoken by indigenous people all "[a]long Long Island Sound ... from the Connecticut River ... to at least as far as Norwalk ... possibly up to the Hudson in the west, and included a portion of land in present-day New York State ... [as well as] south central and western Long Island."