The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. This grouping consists of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. [1]

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The Algonquian languages are a subfamily of American indigenous languages that include most 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, which is a senior member of the Algonquian language family. The term Algonquin …

Algonquian languages, a large subfamily of Native American languages in a wide swath of eastern North America from Canada to Virginia. Algonquin language, the language of the Algonquin people in Canada, for which the Algonquian languages group is named. Algonquian peoples, indigenous tribes of North America composed of people who speak the ...

The Eliot Indian Bible (officially: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God, a.k.a.: Algonquian Bible) was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language, as well as the first Bible published in British North America.

The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people of Eastern Canada. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (including Oji-Cree ), Mississauga and Nipissing, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe (Anishinaabeg).

The Title page of Genesis in Algonquian In 1649 the English Parliament passed An Act for the Promoting and Propagating the Gospel of Jesus Christ in New England. [5] This was the precursor to Eliot translating the Bible. Missionaries like Eliot had the full support of the British government.

Algonquin Bible. The Algonquin Bible (officially named, Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God ), also called the Eliot Indian Bible, was the first Bible printed in America. The Natick dialect of Algonquin is one of the world’s most difficult languages. The complete first edition, printed in 1663, can be seen on archive.org. In 1675 many copies of the first edition were …

Omàmìwininìmowin (Algonquin) is an Algonquian language, of the Algic family of languages, and is descended from Proto-Algonquian. It is considered a particularly divergent dialect of Ojibwe by many. But, although the speakers call themselves Omàmiwininì or Anicinàbe ("Anishinaabe"), the Ojibwe call them Odishkwaagamii (those at the end of ...