Narragansett /nrnst/ is an Algonquian language formerly spoken in most of what is today Rhode Island by the Narragansett people. Roger Williams From English to Algonquian: Early New England Translations After the war, the colonists sold some surviving Narragansetts into slavery and shipped them to the Caribbean; others became indentured servants in Rhode Island. A Historical Phonology of Narragansett. American Indian studies in the extinct languages of southeastern New England : Massachusett-Narragansett revival program : a project for the reconstruction of the extinct American Indian languages of southeastern New England. The state transferred a total of 1,800 acres (7.3km2) to a corporation formed to hold the land in trust for descendants of the 1880 Narragansett Roll. Two appendices are included: (1) TYPE I (-am ending), Verb Stems in Of course, residential boarding schools also caused many Indigenous children to give up their languages, often under threats of violence. It is also very, very hard to figure out how people spoke a language when no one speaks it fluently anymore.