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5 unusual facts about Algonquin language


Algonquian language

Algonquin language, an Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language

Algonquin language

Other than Algonquin, languages considered as particularly divergent dialects of the Anishinaabe language include Mississauga (often called "Eastern Ojibwe") and Odawa.

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge".

Karl V. Teeter

Teeter not only provided crucial data, but recognized many of the correspondences with Algonquian cited by Mary Haas.

Pecatonica, Illinois

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.



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