Algonquian languages

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The Algonquian languages are a large family of Indigenous languages of North America historically spoken from the Atlantic Coast to the Great Plains, including well-known languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, and Wampanoag.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous language family
language family
continent North America
historicalRange pre-Columbian North America
includesLanguage Abenaki
surface form: Abenaki language

Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Algonquin language

Arapaho language
Atikamekw language
Blackfoot
surface form: Blackfoot language

Cheyenne language
Cree language
Delaware language
Eastern Abenaki language
Fox language
Gros Ventre language
Kickapoo language
Munsee language
surface form: Lenape language

Mahican language
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy language
Massachusett language
Menominee language
Mi'kmaq language
Miami-Illinois language
Narragansett language
surface form: Mohegan-Pequot language

Cree language
surface form: Moose Cree language

Munsee language
Narragansett language
Naskapi language
Ojibwe
surface form: Ojibwe language

Cree language
surface form: Plains Cree language

Potawatomi
surface form: Potawatomi language

Shawnee language
Cree language
surface form: Swampy Cree language

Unami language
Wampanoag language
Western Abenaki language
languageBranch Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Algonquian

Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eastern Algonquian

Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
surface form: Plains Algonquian
notableFeature animate-inanimate gender distinction
complex polysynthetic morphology
obviative grammatical category
rich verb inflection
region Atlantic coast of North America
surface form: Atlantic Coast of North America

Northeast Woodlands
surface form: Eastern Woodlands

Great Plains
Subarctic
spokenBy Abenaki
surface form: Algonquian peoples
status many languages endangered
some languages revitalized
subfamilyOf Algic languages
usedIn oral tradition of Algonquian peoples
writingSystem Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
Latin script

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Lake Superior hasNativeNameLanguage Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Ojibwe
Wampanoag people languageFamily Algonquian languages
Black Hawk languageSpoken Algonquian languages
Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project relatedTo Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian languages
Wampanoag language languageFamily Algonquian languages
Wampanoag language subfamily Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian languages
Native Americans languageFamily Algonquian languages
Algonquian languages includesLanguage Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Algonquin language
Algonquian languages languageBranch Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Plains Algonquian
Algonquian languages languageBranch Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Central Algonquian
Algonquian languages languageBranch Algonquian languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian
Mahican languageFamily Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian languages
Lenape languageFamily Algonquian languages
Potawatomi languageFamily Algonquian languages
Sauk people languageFamily Algonquian languages
First Nations languageFamily Algonquian languages
Narragansett people languageFamily Algonquian languages
Miantonomo culture Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Algonquian-speaking peoples
Massachusett people languageFamily Algonquian languages
Pequot people languageFamily Algonquian languages
Nauset people languageFamily Algonquian languages
Nauset people spokeLanguage Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian language
Cree languageFamily Algonquian languages
Cree languageBranch Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Central Algonquian
Mohegan tribe languageFamily Algonquian languages
Ojibwe languageFamily Algonquian languages
Meskwaki (Fox) languageFamily Algonquian languages
subject surface form: Meskwaki
Podunk languageFamily Algonquian languages
Abenaki languageFamily Algonquian languages
Nipmuc languageFamily Algonquian languages
Nipmuc traditionalLanguage Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian language
Innu languageFamily Algonquian languages
Narragansett languageFamily Algonquian languages
Wabanaki Confederacy languageFamily Algonquian languages
Narragansett language family Algonquian languages
Narragansett language subfamily Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian languages
Narragansett language classificationStatus Algonquian languages
this entity surface form: Eastern Algonquian
Sauk languageFamily Algonquian languages
Wôpanâak languageFamily Algonquian languages
Penobscot people primaryLanguageFamily Algonquian languages
Shinnecock Indian Nation languageFamily Algonquian languages
Indigenous languages of Canada hasType Algonquian languages
Southeastern Woodlands languageFamilies Algonquian languages
Kickapoo languageFamily Algonquian languages
Algic languages hasPart Algonquian languages