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Many people are confused about the term "Algonquin", which really refers to just one small tribe living along the Ottawa River valley in Canada, where they have always lived and still live today.
The similar word Algonquian refers to a huge family of distantly related languages spoken by many tribes across most of North American, but mainly in the north, around the Great Lakes and in the north-east woodlands and along the eastern seaboard of the USA. This language family gets its name from that small Algonquin tribe, who are used as representative of the whole group.
The Algonquin language is still spoken today thanks to concerted efforts by the tribe itself, supported by the Canadian government; it is very closely related to Ojibwe and Ottawa (two more Algonquian languages).
A few words of the Algonquin language are:
kaagaagiw (raven)
andeg (crow)
miziki or kiniw (eagle)
okad (leg)
odoon (mouth)
onagocag (stars)
nodin (windy)
kiziz (sun)
cigwatik (pine tree)
wabos (rabbit)
nokomis (grandmother)
biibiins (baby)
So, to answer your question, the Algonquin people spoke the Algonquin language; the Algonquian tribes spoke a huge number of related Algonquian languages.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoMany people are confused about the term "Algonquin", which really refers to just one small tribe living along the Ottawa River valley in Canada, where they have always lived and still live today.
The similar word Algonquian refers to a huge family of distantly related languages spoken by many tribes across most of North American, but mainly in the north, around the Great Lakes and in the north-east woodlands and along the eastern seaboard of the USA. This language family gets its name from that small Algonquin tribe, who are used as representative of the whole group.
The Algonquin language is still spoken today thanks to concerted efforts by the tribe itself, supported by the Canadian government; it is very closely related to Ojibwe and Ottawa (two more Algonquian languages).
A few words of the Algonquin language are:
kaagaagiw (raven)
andeg (crow)
miziki or kiniw (eagle)
okad (leg)
odoon (mouth)
onagocag (stars)
nodin (windy)
kiziz (sun)
cigwatik (pine tree)
wabos (rabbit)
nokomis (grandmother)
biibiins (baby)
So, to answer your question, the Algonquin people spoke the Algonquin language; the Algonquian tribes spoke a huge number of related Algonquian languages.
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What languages are spoken by Monacan Indians?
Monacan people speak English.Historically, they spoke Tutelo, also known as Tutelo-Saponi. Tutelo went extinct in 1871 with the death of a man named Nikonha.
What languages were spoken by Algonquin Indians?
Algonquian!
Was Pocahontas part of the Algonquian tribe?
Algonquian is not a tribe, it's a large grouping of tribes that speak Algonquian languages. Tribes in the Powhatan confederacy, which Pocahontas was part of, spoke an Algonquian dialect. That language is now extinct, though there are efforts to reconstruct it, which means they have an approximation of it based on historical word lists and still-existing Algonquian dialects.
What language did the cahokias speak?
Algonquian.
What languages were spoken by Pocahontas?
Most likely Algonquian.
What languages were spoken by the Hopewell culture?
The Hopewell culture likely spoke various languages belonging to the Algonquian language family, as many of their descendants, such as the Shawnee and Delaware tribes, spoke Algonquian languages. However, there is limited direct evidence of the specific languages spoken by the Hopewell people.
What languages are spoken by Abenaki Indians?
The Abenaki people traditionally speak the Abenaki language, which is a member of the Algonquian language family. Today, there are efforts within Abenaki communities to revitalize and preserve the language through language revitalization programs. English is also commonly spoken among Abenaki individuals.
What language group did the Powhatan Indians belong to?
The Powhatan people spoke Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian, an extinct language belonging to the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages.
What languages are spoken by Arapaho Indians?
I believe they spoke Algonquian
What languages are spoken by Powhatan Indians?
Today they speak English. Up until the 1790s, they spoke Powhatan, also called Virginia Algonquian. Nothing but a few words are known of this language.
What is the difference between algonquin and algonquian?
The Algonquin tribe, also called Algonkin, Anishinaabe or Omàmiwininiwak, live today where they have always lived - along the Ottawa river valley between Quebec and Ontario in Canada.Many other tribes in the USA and Canada speak languages which are classed as Algonquian (meaning "like Algonquin").
Where does the algonquian live?
Many people are confused about the meanings of the words "Algonquin" and "Algonquian".The Algonquin tribe, also called Algonkin, Anishinaabe or Omàmiwininiwak, live today where they have always lived - along the Ottawa river valley between Quebec and Ontario in Canada.Many other tribes in the USA and Canada speak languages which are classed as Algonquian (meaning "like Algonquin"). They lived across most of North America; the Blackfoot, Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Great Plains all spoke Algonquian languages, so did the Powhatan, Secotan and Pamunkey of Virginia, the Delawares, the Shawnees, the Ojibwe/Chippewa, the Cree, The Montagnais, Abenaki, Penobscot and Mi'kmaq, the Menomini, Sauk and Fox and very many other tribes.So it is not possible to say that the Algonquian people lived in any one place - they were many tribes living across many thousands of square miles of territory.
