Editing Massachusett language (section)

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The traditional method of referring to the language was simply {{lang|alg|hettꝏonk}}<ref>Trumbull, J. H. (1903). p. 27.</ref> ({{lang|wam|hutuwôk}}) {{IPA|/hətəwãk/|lang=wam}}, 'that which they [can] speak to each other'<ref>Hicks, N. (2006). [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/37422 A list of initials and finals in wôpanâak]. (Master's thesis). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. p. 41. From ({{lang|und|uhutu-}}), 'to speak together' and ({{lang|und|-ôk}}) [nominalizing suffix].</ref> Dialects or languages that were harder to understand were {{lang|alg|siogontꝏwaonk}}<ref name="TJH">Trumbull, J. H. (1903). pp. 173, 285.</ref> ({{lang|wam|sayakôtuwâôk}}) {{IPA|/sajakãtəwaːãk/|lang=wam}},<ref>Hicks, N. (2006). p. 37. From {{lang|und|sayak-}}, 'difficult' and ({{lang|und|-ôntuwâôk}}), 'language.'</ref> 'difficult language', contrasting with {{lang|alg|penꝏwantꝏaog}}<ref name="TJH"/> ({{lang|wam|peen8wôtuwâôk}}) {{IPA|/piːnuːwãtəwaːãk/|lang=wam}},<ref>Hicks, N. (2006). p. 31. From ({{lang|und|peen8w-}}), 'strange.'</ref>'foreign' or 'strange language.'

When needed to refer to specific people or places, the name of the people or place was followed by {{lang|alg|unnontꝏwaog}}<ref name="TJH"/> ({{lang|wam|unôtuwâôk}}) {{IPA|/ənãtəwaːãk/}}<ref>Hicks, N. (2006). From ({{lang|und|unun}}), 'person,' and ({{lang|und|ôtuwâ}}), 'to speak,' and ({{lang|und|-ôk}}), a nominalizing suffix.</ref> to indicate 'its people's language' or 'that which the people speak'.<ref name="TJH"/> In the colonial period, the language was generally known as {{lang|alg|Massachusett unnontꝏwaonk}} ({{lang|alg|Muhsachuweesut unôtuwâôk}}) {{IPA|/məhsatʃəwiːsət ənãtəwaːãk/|lang=alg}}, 'language of the Massachusett (region)' or {{lang|alg|Massachusee unnontꝏwaonk}} ({{lang|alg|Muhsachuweesee unôtuwâôk}}) {{IPA|/məhsatʃəwiːsiː ənãtəwaːãk/|lang=alg}}, 'language of the Massachusett (people).' {{lang|alg|Massachusee}} was the correct short form in traditional Massachusett usage to refer to the people and the language, despite the adoption of ''Massachusett'' in English, hence the translation of the ''Massachusett Psalter'' as {{lang|alg|Massachusee Psalter}}.<ref name="Fun">Baird, J. L. D. (2014). 'Fun with Words.' WLRP.</ref> The people and language take their name from the sacred hill, known in English as [[Great Blue Hill]]. The name derives from {{lang|alg|missi-}}<ref>Trumbull, J. H. (1903). pp. 58, 270.</ref> ({{lang|alg|muhs-}}),<ref name="Fun"/><ref>Hicks. N. (2006). p. 20. From {{lang|alg|muhs-}}, 'great.'</ref> 'big,' 'sacred,' or 'great,' {{lang|alg|[w]achuwees}} ({{lang|wam|[w]achuwees}}) {{IPA|/[w]atʃəw[iː]s/|lang=wam}}, 'hill' (literally 'small mountain') and the locative suffix {{lang|alg|-ett}} ({{lang|alg|-ut}}). The syncopation of the diminutive ({{lang|wam|-ees}}) to {{lang|alg|-s}} was common in dialects and rapid or relaxed speech, thus the colonial form {{lang|alg|wachus}} as opposed to careful Massachusett ({{lang|wam|wachuwees}}).

The Wampanoag tribes affiliated with the WLRP refer to the language as ({{lang|wam|Wôpanâôtuwâôk}}), possibly back-rendered into the colonial spelling as {{lang|alg|Wampanaontꝏwaonk}}, 'Wampanoag language' to refer not only to the varieties used historically by the Wampanoag people, but also to the Massachusett language as a whole. The name derives from {{lang|alg|wampan-}}<ref>Trumbull, J. H. (1903). pp. 250, 269.</ref> ({{lang|alg|wôpan-}}),<ref name="Hicks, N. 2006. p. 45">Hicks, N. (2006). p. 45.</ref> 'east' or 'dawn,' and thus signifies 'language of the easterners' or 'language of the people of the dawn.' Modern speakers of the revived dialect shorten this to ({{lang|alg|Wôpanâak}}) (Wampanoag), even though this technically refers only to the people.<ref name="Project History"/>