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4 unusual facts about Algonquian languages


Algonquian languages

:See the lists of words in the Algonquian languages and the list of words of Algonquian origin at Wiktionary, the free dictionary and Wikipedia's sibling project.

Algoriphagus

A. machipongonensis ( Alegado et al. 2012, ; Algonquin noun "Machipongo", Hog Island, Virginia, USA; Latin suff. -ensis, of or belonging to; New Latin masculine gender "machipongonensis", of or belonging to Machipongo/Hog Island).

Appomattoc

The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia.

Pecatonica River

The word Pecatonica is an anglicization of two Algonquian language words: Bekaa (or Pekaa in some dialects), which means "slow", and niba, which means "water", forming the conjunction Bekaaniba or "Slow Water".


Big Bay de Noc

As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Chaptico, Maryland

"Chaptico" may be Algonquian for "big-broad-river-it-is" and related to the friendly Chaptico tribe visited by Gov. Charles Calvert in 1663.

Coharie

Historians generally contend that the Coharie are descendants of the Iroquoian-speaking Neusiok and Coree, as well as the Iroquoian Tuscarora, and the Siouan Waccamaw, who occupied what is now the central portion of North Carolina.

Don Luis

Some historians, among them Carl Bridenbaugh, have speculated that Don Luís was the same person as Opechancanough, younger brother (or close relative) of Powhatan (Wahunsonacock), paramount chief of an alliance of Algonquian-speakers in the Tidewater.

Hampton, New Hampshire

"Winnacunnet" is an Algonquian Abenaki word meaning "pleasant pines" and is the name of the town's high school, serving students from Hampton and surrounding towns.

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Monboddo studied languages of peoples colonised by Europeans, including those of the Carib, Eskimo, Huron, Algonquian, Peruvian (Quechua?) and Tahitian peoples.

Kainai Nation

The Kainai speak a language of the Algonquian linguistic group; their dialect is closely related to those of the Siksika and Peigan.

Little Bay de Noc

The bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

Narragansett Trail

The Narragansett were a tribe of Algonquian speaking people who occupied the area which is now western Rhode Island including the coast and islands in Narragansett Bay during the early colonial period.

Nils Holmer

Unusually, he carried out fieldwork across a wide range of languages across several continents, including Irish, Basque, Siouan languages, Algonquian languages, Iroquoian languages, the Central American language Kuna and the South American language of Choco and Wayuu and Australian Aboriginal languages.

Pennacook

An Algonquian-speaking tribe, they were more closely related to the Abenaki tribes to the west, north and east such as the Penobscot, Piguaket or Pawtucket than to the other Algonquian tribes to the south, such as the Massachusett or Wampanoag.

Roanoke-Hatteras tribe

The Roanoke-Hatteras Indian Tribe are descendants of the historic Hatteras, Roanoke, and other Algonkian speaking Indians who occupied Hatteras and Roanoke Islands, the Outer Banks, and the mainland of Hyde and Dare Counties.

Shelby County, Ohio

The Algonquian-speaking Shawnee Native Americans had come into the area in the 18th century, displacing the Ojibwa-speaking Ottawa of the Anishinaabeg, a related language group who moved northwest.

Sinsinawa River

One version holds that "Sinsinawa" derives from an Algonquian word (possibly Potawatomi, Fox or Menominee language) for "rattlesnake" to describe the Sioux.


see also

Ojibwe grammar

Ojibwe, as with other Algonquian languages, also exhibits a direct–inverse system, in which transitive verbs are marked for whether or not the direction of the action follows a "topicality hierarchy" of the language.

Philip LeSourd

LeSourd earned both a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics at M.I.T. He became fascinated with Algonquian languages after a class in the Mesquakie (Fox) language from Ives Goddard at Harvard soon after finishing his bachelor's degree.

Proto-Algonquian language

It has merged with the reflex of *r in all Algonquian languages except for Cree and the Arapaho group.