Welcome to the Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal

Kmihqitahaman David A. Francis, 23 January 1917 - 25 February 2016

Kmihqitahaman-ona Wayne A. Newell, 1942–2021. Wayne first set the dictionary project in motion and will remain its guiding spirit.

The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal links the 19,000-entry online Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary with an extensive archive of videos of conversations and activities of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet speakers. The Portal is designed as a resource for language learning and research. It can be entered in either of two ways:

  1. While viewing Dictionary Items, you can link to videos in which the same word is used.
  2. When viewing Videos, you can link to the dictionary entries of words that appear in the subtitles; in those entries, you may find links to additional related videos.

Choose from one of the navigation menu items to begin.
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Find a dictionary term using the site search.

The verb conjugation charts 1–40 have been updated with corrections and additions.

Please see Using the Portal or watch our User's Guide for a general orientation to the Portal.