Quiripi language

Quiripi
Native toUnited States
RegionGold Coast, Long Island
EthnicityQuinnipiac, Unquachog, Mattabessett (Wangunk), Podunk, Tunxis, Paugussett
Extinctca. 1900
Language codes
ISO 639-3qyp
Glottologwamp1250
The location of the Paugussett, Tunxis, Podunk, Quinnipiac, Mattabesic (Wangunk), Unquachog and their neighbors, c. 1600

Quiripi (pronounced /ˈkwɪrɪpiː/KWIH-rih-pee) was an Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Quinnipiac, an Indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut and central Long Island, It has been extinct since the end of the 19th century, although Frank Siebert was able to record a few Unquachog words from an elderly woman in 1932.

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