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Piscataway is an extinct Algonquian language formerly spoken by the Piscataway a dominant chiefdom on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay in present-day Maryland United States. Piscataway also known as Conoy (from the Iroquois ethnonym for the tribe) is considered a dialect of Nanticoke.This designation is based on the scant evidence available for the Piscataway language.