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Meaning of Abenaki | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/

Definitions

  1. A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.
  2. A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).
  3. The Western Abenaki language.

Equivalents

Français Abénaqui abénaquis
Português abenaki

Examples

“The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble.”
“The manuscript was written in 1750 by Father Joseph Aubery, a Jesuit priest from France assigned to the Saint-François-de-Sales Roman Catholic mission from 1709 until he died in 1756. It's one of the few and earliest documents available in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan, the Abenaki language.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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