High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Beothuk were the native inhabitants of the island of Newfoundland at the time of European contact in the 15th and 16th centuries. With the death in 1829 of Shanawdithit, a woman who was the last recorded surviving member, the people became officially extinct as a separate ethnic group. Beothuk means "people" in the Beothuk language. The origins of the Beothuk are uncertain. There are only limited records of their language, and theories about its origin are controversial. Some linguists believe it is a branch of Algonquian. This theory has been supported by recently derived DNA evidence that links this people to Northeastern First Nations, or Algonquian tribes. Prior to that, based only on linguistic analysis, some scholars regarded Beothuk as a language isolate.

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