Piedmont
The Powhatan people spoke Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian, an extinct language belonging to the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages.
There is no known language called Powhatan. However, the Powhatan people spoke Algonquian languages, and "wingapo" means "hello" or "welcome" in the Virginia Algonquian language spoken by the Powhatan people.
No Pochontas was not Cherokee. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the powerful chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia.
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The Eastern Woodlands
The Eastern Woodlands
The native people at Jamestown primarily spoke Algonquian languages. The Powhatan tribe, which was the dominant tribe in the area, spoke a version of Algonquian.
There is no such thing as the Algonquian tribe. The term Algonquian applies to a very large family of distantly-related languages spoken by tribes across the entire North American continent. So, for example, the Arapaho (who spoke an Algonquian language) lived on the Great Plains and lived entirely different lifestyles to the Powhatan (another Algonquian-speaking group) who lived in the tidewater areas of Virginia.
I believe they spoke Algonquian
The Eastern Woodlands; Apex.
The Eastern Woodlands; Apex.
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.