Algonquian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Algonquian in British English:
UK [æl'ɡɒŋkwɪən]
How to pronounce Algonquian in American English:
US [æl'ɡɑŋkwɪrn]
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- Noun:
- a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coa
- family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
Word Origin
- Algonquian
- also Algonkian, 1885, an ethnologist's word, modified from Algonquin + -ian. Both forms of the name have been used as adjectives and nouns. An American-Indian language family spread over a wide area of northeast and north-central North America, from Nova Scotia (Micmac) to Montana (Cheyenne).
Example
- 1. The algonquian language spoken by the shawnee people .
- 2. The algonquian language spoken by the cheyenne people .
- 3. The algonquian language of the illinois and miami peoples .
- 4. The algonquian language spoken by the delaware people .
- 5. The algonquian language spoken by the mohican people .