Quiripi language
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Quiripi is the name of a Native American language of the Algonquian language family. It was spoken by the Quinnipiack tribe of southwestern Connecticut. Although long extinct, Quiripi is documented in a catechism compiled by Puritan missionary Abraham Pierson at the Branford mission in the seventeenth century. It is closely related to the Naugatuck language of west Connecticut.
A Quiripi word which remains to the present day is the tribe's name of Quinnipiack, from which Quinnipiac University takes its name. It is believed this word means either "long water river" or "long water country".
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