Loup language
Loup is an extinct Algonquian language, or possibly group of languages, spoken in colonial New England. "Loup" ("Wolf") was a French colonial ethnographic term, and usage was inconsistent. In modern literature, it refers to two varieties, Loup A and Loup B. Attestation. Loup A, which may be the language of the Nipmuck, is principally attested from a word list recorded from refugees by the St. Francis mission to the Abenaki in Quebec. The descendants of these refugees became speakers of Western Abenaki in the eighteenth century. Loup B refers to a second word list, which shows extensive dialectal  variation. This may not be a distinct language, but just notes on the speech of various New England Algonquian refugees in French missions. Phonology. The phonology of Loup A (Nipmuck), reconstructed by Gustafson 2000: The vowel sounds likely have the same phonetic quality as other southern New England Algonquian languages. The short vowels /i o e a/ may represent the sounds as [ɪ], [ʊ], [ɛ,ə], and [ʌ], while the long vowels /iː/, /oː/, and /ã/ correspond to /i/, /o/, and /ã/.