*pre-contact distribution of ‘algonquian peoples’*
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(/ælˈɡɒŋkiən/
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/ælˈɡɒŋkwiən/
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*also algonkian*
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*MAJOR TRIBES* –>
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*THE ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES*
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(the algonquian are one of the most populous + widespread North American native language groups)
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Today, thousands of individuals identify with various Algonquian peoples.
Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the St. Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes.
This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages.
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(the algonquian languages are a subfamily of ‘native american languages’ which includes most of the languages in the ‘algic language family’)
(the name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from the orthographically similar Algonquin dialect of the indigenous Ojibwe language (Chippewa), which is a senior member of the Algonquian language family)
(the term “Algonquin” has been suggested to derive from the Maliseet word elakómkwik (pronounced [ɛlæˈɡomoɡwik]), “they are our relatives/allies”)
(a number of Algonquian languages, like many of the Iroquoian languages of the hereditary enemies of the Algonquian peoples, have already become extinct)
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 family descend, Proto-Algonquian, was spoken around 2,500 to 3,000 years ago)
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*there is no scholarly consensus about where this language was spoken*
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