According to The Languages of Native North America, Piscataway, otherwise called Conoy (from the Iroquois name for the tribe), was a dialect of Nanticoke.

The original copy is a five-page Roman Catholic instruction written in Piscataway; it is the main surviving record of the language.

A prominent speaker of Piscataway was Mary Kittamaquund, called the "Pocahontas of Maryland" due to her state as the daughter of a chieftain, marriage to an English settler and diplomatic ability.

[7] The National Museum of the American Indian Mitsitam Native Foods Café is named after the Piscataway and Delaware term for "let’s eat".

[8] Similarly the University of Maryland, College Park named a dining hall Yahentamitsi, which translates to "a place to go to eat".