 Tribal members are working to revive the Abenaki language at Odanak (means "in the village"), a First Nations Abenaki reserve near Pierreville, Quebec, and throughout New Hampshire, Vermont and New York state.The language is holophrastic, meaning that a phrase or an entire sentence is expressed by a single word.For example, the word for "white man" "awanoch" is a combination of the words "awani" meaning "who" and "uji" meaning "from".