The Miꞌkmaq language (/ ˈ m ɪ ɡ m ɑː /), or Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk, is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Miꞌkmaq population is roughly 20,000. The native name of the language is Lnuismk, Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk or Miꞌkmwei (in some dialects). The word Miꞌkmaq is a plural word …

The Arapaho (Arapahoe) language (Hinónoʼeitíít) is one of the Plains Algonquian languages, closely related to Gros Ventre and other Arapahoan languages.It is spoken by the Arapaho of Wyoming and Oklahoma.Speakers of Arapaho primarily live on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, though some have affiliation with the Cheyenne living in western Oklahoma.

The Blackfoot language, also called Siksiká (its denomination in ISO 639-3, English: / s iː k ˈ s iː k ə /; Siksiká, syllabics ᓱᖽᐧᖿ), often anglicised as Siksika, is an Algonquian language spoken by the Blackfoot or Niitsitapi people, who currently live in the northwestern plains of North America.There are four dialects, three of which are spoken in Alberta, Canada, and one of ...

Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montaukett and Shinnecock) is an Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.

Innu-aimun or Montagnais is an Algonquian language spoken by over 10,000 Innu in Labrador and Quebec in Eastern Canada. It is a member of the Cree –Montagnais– Naskapi dialect continuum and is spoken in various dialects depending on the community.

有一种说法认为“爱斯基摩”（Eskimo）这个词本来是北美印第安人对这个北方民族的蔑称，源自原始阿尔冈昆语（Proto-Algonquian）的ask（生的）+imo（吃），意思是吃生肉的家伙。而爱斯基摩人则自称为Inuiktitut（人）或者Yup'ik（真正的人）。

Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) was an Algonquian language spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in what then was (or later became) the southern two-thirds of New Jersey, southeastern Pennsylvania and the northern two-thirds of Delaware, but later in Ontario and Oklahoma.It is one of the two Delaware languages, the other …

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, …

Other than those involving a consonant plus /j/ or /w/, the only possible consonant cluster is /ʃk/.. Until the early 1900s, Fox was a phonologically very conservative language and preserved many features of Proto-Algonquian; records from the decades immediately following 1900 are particularly useful to Algonquianists for this reason.By the 1960s, however, an extensive …

also correctly indicate: squaw comes from a language of the Algonquian family in which it meant "woman.'' The facts are as follows: Many languages of the Algonquian family have related words for "woman'' that can be reconstructed back to the Proto-Algonquian parent language as *ethkweewa by using the techniques of comparative linguistics.