ALGIC LANGUAGES

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The Algic language family is one of the largest indigenous language families in North America. It consists of 44 languages, the overwhelming majority of which (42 languages) belong to the Algonquian branch. The two Algic languages that are not Algonquian are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California whose relationship with the Algonquian languages was established by Edward Sapir, the first linguist to use the name Algic. All these languages descend from Proto-Algic, a second-order proto-language estimated to have been spoken about 7,000 years ago and reconstructed using the reconstructed Proto-Algonquian language and the Wiyot and Yurok languages. The ancestral language from which all of the Algonquian languages developed, known as Proto-Algonquian, was spoken at least 3,000 years ago, but there is no consensus among scholars about its location.

The Algonquian branch was named after the Algonquin language. The terms “Algonquian”, a branch of the Algic language family, and “Algonquin”, an indigenous language spoken in Canada, need to be distinguished. The similarity in the names causes some confusion.

Today, the Algonquian branch includes 27 languages spoken in a wide region that stretches through the central part of the North American continent from the Canadian subarctic in the north to the eastern seaboard, and as far south as North Carolina.

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