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Six English words originated from an extinct language

Did you know that the English words moose, opossum, pecan, raccoon, skunk, and squash are originated from the now – extinct language that the Algonquian people used to speak?

Algonquian people was the native tribe inhabiting the site of the earliest English colony in what is now the US at Roanoke Island.

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