• Proto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the proto-language from which the various Algonquian languages are descended. It is generally estimated to...
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    ago and reconstructed using the reconstructed Proto-Algonquian language and the Wiyot and Yurok languages. The term Algic was first coined by Henry Schoolcraft...
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    Speakers of Algonquian languages stretch from the east coast of North America to the Rocky Mountains. The proto-language from which all of the languages of the...
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    The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the Algonquian languages. Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of at least...
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  • Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc) is the proto-language from which the Algic languages (Wiyot language, Yurok language, and Proto-Algonquian) are...
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  • Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian was an Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian languages. It was formerly spoken by the Powhatan people of tidewater...
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    of the Algonquian language family. Like all other Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This language is considered...
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  • Proto-Eskimo–Aleut Proto-Eskimo Proto-Inuit Proto-Algic Proto-Algonquian Proto-Muskogean Proto-Iroquoian Proto-Uto-Aztecan Proto-Nahuan Proto-Mayan Proto-Mixe–Zoquean...
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  • From an Algonquian language, perhaps Powhatan <mockasin>, reconstituted as */mahkesen/(c.f. Ojibwe makizin, Míkmaq mɨkusun, from Proto-Algonquian *maxkeseni)...
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    have begun as a dialect of the Proto-Algonquian language spoken between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago in the original Algonquian homeland, an undetermined area...
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  • (Arapahoe) language (Hinónoʼeitíít) is one of the Plains Algonquian languages, closely related to Gros Ventre and other Arapahoan languages. It is spoken...
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  • standardization efforts for the Cree language at large. Preservation of the Proto-Algonquian *k as /k/ Preservation of the Proto-Algonquian *r as a distinctive consonant...
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  • The Plains Algonquian languages are well known for having diverged significantly from Proto-Algonquian (the parent of all Algonquian languages), both phonologically...
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    The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern...
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  • Wendigo (category Articles containing Proto-Algonquian-language text)
    windigoag is also spelled windegoag, wiindigooag, or windikouk. The Proto-Algonquian term has been reconstructed as *wi·nteko·wa, which may have meant "owl"...
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  • literally "Atikamekw native language") is a variety of the Algonquian language Cree[citation needed] and the language of the Atikamekw people of southwestern...
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    Tomahawk (category Articles containing Proto-Algonquian-language text)
    comes from Powhatan tamahaac, derived from the Proto-Algonquian root *temah- 'to cut off by tool'. Algonquian cognates include Lenape təmahikan, Malecite-Passamaquoddy...
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    Algonquian–Wakashan (also Almosan, Algonkian–Mosan, Algonkin–Wakashan) is a hypothetical language family composed of several established language families...
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    Raccoon (category Articles containing Proto-Algonquian-language text)
    Strachey as arathkone. It has also been identified as a reflex of a Proto-Algonquian root *ahrah-koon-em, meaning '[the] one who rubs, scrubs and scratches...
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  • The Central Algonquian languages are commonly grouped together as a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family. Though...
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    Mattabesic, Quiripi-Unquachog, Quiripi-Naugatuck, and Wampano) was an Algonquian language formerly spoken by the indigenous people of southwestern Connecticut...
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    Skunk (category Articles containing Proto-Algonquian-language text)
    1630s, adapted from a southern New England Algonquian language (probably Abenaki) seganku, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka:kwa, from *šek- 'to urinate' + *-a:kw...
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    Algonquian language, which is the sole recognized genetic subgroup descending from Proto-Algonquian, the common ancestor language of the Algonquian language...
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  • Omàmìwininìmowin (Algonquin) is an Algonquian language, of the Algic family of languages, and is descended from Proto-Algonquian. It is considered a particularly...
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  • none of the words correspond to any known Algonquian language, or to reconstructions of proto-Algonquian. Given the extensive ethnic mixing that occurred...
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  • computer-generated dictionary of Proto-Algonquian. Hull: Canadian Museum of Civilization. Julian, Charles. 2010. A history of the Iroquoian languages. Winnipeg: University...
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  • Saulteaux, and Plains Ojibwa) is a dialect of the Ojibwe language, a member of the Algonquian language family. It is spoken by the Saulteaux, a subnation of...
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    Comparative method (category Articles containing Finnish-language text)
    change.... The reconstruction of unknown proto-languages is inherently subjective. In the Proto-Algonquian example above, the choice of *m as the parent...
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    Nikolaev. 2015. Toward the reconstruction of Proto-Algonquian-Wakashan. Part 1: Proof of the Algonquian-Wakashan relationship". Retrieved Mar 25, 2023...
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    Eastern Algonquian language. The hypothetical common ancestor language from which the Eastern Algonquian languages descend is Proto-Eastern Algonquian (PEA)...
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