Algonquian
Indigenous language family
Algonquian refers to a large family of Native American languages spoken across a vast region of North America, from the Atlantic coast to the Rocky Mountains.
The family includes languages such as Ojibwe, Cree, Blackfoot, and the now-extinct languages of the Powhatan and Massachusetts peoples.
As an adjective, it describes the peoples who speak these languages or their cultures: Algonquian tribes, Algonquian mythology.
Many English words—including moose, raccoon, and tomahawk—derive from Algonquian languages.
Algonquian-speaking indigenous nation
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- BlackfootPlains Algonquian nation
- PowhatanVirginia Algonquian confederation
- WampanoagAlgonquian-speaking northeastern tribe
Lenape · Shawnee · Cheyenne · Arapaho · Pequot · Kickapoo · Menominee · Potawatomi
Largest cervid, northern forests
- raccoonMasked North American omnivore
- skunkSpray-armed striped mammal
- opossumAmerican pouch-bearing mammal
- chipmunkStriped burrowing rodent
muskrat · woodchuck · wigwam · moccasin · toboggan · tomahawk · succotash · hominy
Study of structural forms
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
- animateGive life to
inanimate · obviation · proximate · reduplication · cognates · reconstruction · fieldwork · revitalization
Ojibwe
Algonquian-speaking indigenous nation
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- BlackfootPlains Algonquian nation
- PowhatanVirginia Algonquian confederation
Wampanoag · Lenape · Shawnee · Cheyenne · Arapaho · Pequot · Kickapoo · Menominee · Potawatomi · Abenaki
moose
Largest cervid, northern forests
- raccoonMasked North American omnivore
- skunkSpray-armed striped mammal
- opossumAmerican pouch-bearing mammal
chipmunk · muskrat · woodchuck · wigwam · moccasin · toboggan · tomahawk · succotash · hominy · squash
morphology
Study of structural forms
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
animate · inanimate · obviation · proximate · reduplication · cognates · reconstruction · fieldwork · revitalization
Iroquoian
Native American language family
- proto-languageReconstructed common ancestor tongue
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
- Eastern TribesLenape, Iroquois, Delaware, Mohawk, Seneca
- Indigenous LanguagesNavajo, Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwe
- Native LanguagesCherokee, Navajo, Maori, Hawaiian, Gaelic
- Algonquian PeoplesAbenaki, Delaware, Lenape, Mahican, Micmac
- Language familiesIndo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Austronesian, Dravidian
AlgonquianIroquois
Native American confederacy
Six Nations · Iroquois Confederacy · Mohawk · Seneca · Oneida