Definition of Algonquian language

1. Noun. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Algonquian Language

Algerians
Algerie
Algerine
Algerines
Algeripithecus
Algeripithecus minutus
Algernon
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algherese
Algic
Algiedi
Algiers
Algonkian
Algonkin
Algonquian
Algonquian language
Algonquin
Algonquins
Algren
Alhambra
Alhazen
Alhazen's problem
Ali
Ali Baba
Alicante
Alice
Alice B. Toklas
Alice B. Toklas brownie
Alice B. Toklas brownies
Alice Hamilton

Literary usage of Algonquian language

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1905)
"Indeed, the northwestern range of the algonquian language is not yet accurately fixed. It is so easy for a family or a clan to emigrate a thousand miles ..."

2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"... compared to Algonkin and Huron, 33, 225-227; an algonquian language, 46, 71, 51, 59; Crees speak both Algonquian and Siouan, 66, 1o7 ; compared to ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"... for students of Algic philology that Mr. Speck has been able to collect these scanty and incorrectly preserved relics of a lost algonquian language. ..."

4. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"Massachusett is an extinct Eastern algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. ..."

5. Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages by James Constantine Pilling, Wilberforce Eames (1891)
"[Discourse on Purgatory, and a part of Genesis, in the algonquian language. 1662 T] (*) Manuscript, 99 11. preserved in the archives of the Catholic church ..."

6. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 by William Bradford, Massachusetts Historical Society (1912)
"... Canada, are preserved a grammar, dictionary, discourses and instructions in the algonquian language, dated about the middle of the seventeenth century. ..."

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