Shawnee
shaw·nee
noun
2.
the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee people
Origin
Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.
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