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Nanticoke

DEFINITIONS OF: Nanticoke

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n a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Maryland and eastern Delaware

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquin
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

n the Algonquian language spoken by the Nanticoke and Conoy

Type of:
Algonquian, Algonquian language, Algonquin
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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