Editing Massachusett language (section)

===Position of Massachusett within the Algic languages===
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|label1=[[Algic languages]]
|1={{clade
|    1=[[Yurok language|Yurok (Puliklah) language]] (revived)
|    2=[[Wiyot language|Wiyot (Wishosk) language]] (†)
|    label3=[[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]]
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|       1=[[Plains Algonquian languages|Plains Algonquian]]
|       2=[[Central Algonquian languages|Central Algonquian]]
|  label3=[[Eastern Algonquian languages|Eastern Algonquian]]
|       3={{clade
|           1=[[Abenaki language|Abenakian]] 
|      label2=Southern New England Algonquian
|           2={{clade
|               1='''Massachusett language (revived)'''
|               2=[[Narragansett language]] (†)
|               3=[[Loup language|Nipmuc language]] (†)<ref name="Gust">Gustuffson, H. S. (2000). A grammar of the nipmuc language. (Master's thesis) University of Manitoba. The Nipmuck are currently reviving the Nipmuc-influenced Natick dialect. See White, D. T. P. (Performer/Language Consultant). (2009. April, 13). We shall remain: after the mayflower [Television series episode]. In (Executive producer), The American Experience. Boston: PBS-WGBH.</ref>
|               4=[[Quiripi language|Quiripi-Naugatuck-Unquachog language]] (†)
|               5=[[Mohegan-Pequot language|Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk language]] (†)
              }}
|           3=[[Delaware languages]]
|           4=[[Nanticoke language]] (†)
|           5=[[Powhatan language|Powhatan]] (†)
|           6=[[Pamlico|Carolina Algonquian]] (†)
          }}
       }}
   }}
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Massachusett is in the [[Eastern Algonquian languages|Eastern]] branch of [[Algonquian languages]], which comprises all the known Algonquian languages spoken from the [[The Maritimes|Canadian Maritimes]] southward to the Carolinas. Within the Eastern divisions, Massachusett clusters with the Southern New England Algonquian (SNEA) languages. If considered a dialect of SNEA, it is an SNEA 'N-dialect.' Other Eastern language divisions include the Abenakian languages spoken to the immediate north and the Delawaran languages to the west and southwest of the SNEA region. South of the Delawaran languages are the Nanticokan languages of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River watershed, the Powhatan languages of coastal Virginia and the Carolina Algonquian languages of the Carolinas. The Eastern languages are the only genetic grouping to have emerged from Algonquian, as all the languages descend from Proto-Eastern Algonquian (PEA), which differentiated likely due to isolation from other Algonquian speakers due to the presence of large pockets of [[Iroquoian languages|Iroquoian]] and [[Siouan languages|Siouan]] languages and the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. The [[Central Algonquian languages|Central]] and [[Plains Algonquian languages|Plains]], however, are groupings based on areal features and geographical proximity.