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Oct 28, 2011 · Introduction. The traditional and post-European contact range of the Algonquian languages covers an enormous area: roughly centered along most of the Canadian-US border, extending down the Atlantic coast, into the Great Lakes area, and down the Mississippi and even into northern Mexico.
The Algonquian languages (/ æ l ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ k i ə n / or / æ l ˈ ɡ ɒ ŋ k w i ə n /; [2] also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Native American languages which includes most of the languages in the Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the ...
The Algic (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) [2] languages are an indigenous language family of North America. Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian family, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada.
The three Plains Algonquian language groups are (1) Blackfoot, (2) Cheyenne, and (3) the Arapahoan languages, which include Arapaho, Gros Ventre (Atsina), and Nawathinehena. Current speakers number in the low thousands for Blackfoot and Cheyenne and in the hundreds for Arapaho. No native speakers of Gros Ventre or Nawathinehena remain.
Loup is an Eastern Algonquian language that was spoken by the Nipmuck people until the 18th century in colonial New England, which is now Massachusetts and Connecticut in the USA. There were two varieties of Loup: Loup A, which was also known as Nipmuck or Natick, and Loup B.
Powhatan is an Eastern Algonquian language that was spoken in the Powhatan Confederacy ( Tsenacommacah ), until the 1790. The Powhatan Confederacy was made up of a number of tribes, such as the Pamunkey, Mattaponi and Chickahominy, under the leadership of Chief Wahunsenacawh, also known as Powhatan.
Cree / ˈkriː / [3] (also known as Cree– Montagnais – Naskapi) is an Algonquian language spoken by about 117,000 people across Canada from the Northwest Territories and Alberta to Labrador. [1] . This makes it the aboriginal language with the highest number of speakers in Canada. [1] .
