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Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
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The list Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands includes
Cherokee language, Powhatan, Algonquin language, Powhatan language and Wyandot language.
The list consists of 30 members
and 7 sublists.
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Wyandot language
pair of related Iroquoian languages spoken in Oklahoma and Canada
Overview: Wyandot (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Quendat or Huron) is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known as Wyandot or Wyandotte, descended from the Tionontati. It is considered a sister to ...
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Fox language
Algonquian language spoken in US Midwest and northern Mexico
Overview: Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki ... 0
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Chipewyan language
language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada
Overview: Chipewyan or Dënesųłinë́ (ethnonym: Dënesųłinë́ yatié), often simply called Dëne, is the language spoken by the Chipewyan people of northwestern Canada. It is categorized as part of the Northern Athabaskan ... 0
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Innu language
Cree language of eastern Canada
Overview: 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 ... 0
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Shawnee language
Central Algonquian language
Overview: The Shawnee language is a Central Algonquian language spoken in parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma by the Shawnee people. Historically, it was spoken across a wide region of the Eastern United ... 0
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Delaware languages
Native American languages centered around the Delaware River
Overview: The Delaware languages, also known as the Lenape languages (Delaware: Lënapei èlixsuwakàn), are Munsee and Unami, two closely related languages of the Eastern Algonquian subgroup of the Algonquian language ... 0
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Cherokee language
Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people
Overview: Cherokee or Tsalagi (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, Tsalagi Gawonihisdi, ) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Ethnologue states that there were 1,520 ... 0
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Abenaki language
Algonquian language
Overview: Abenaki (Eastern: Alənαpαtəwéwαkan, Western: Alnôbaôdwawôgan), also known as Wôbanakiak, is an endangered Eastern Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England. The language has ... 0
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Ojibwe language
Central Algonquian language
Overview: Ojibwe (oh-JIB-way), also known as Ojibwa (oh-JIB-wə), Ojibway, Otchipwe, Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian language family. The language is ... 0
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Powhatan
Indigenous Algonquian people that are traditionally from eastern Virginia
Overview: The Powhatan people are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who belong to member tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy, or Tsenacommacah. They are Algonquian peoples whose historic territories ... 0
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Oji-Cree language
languageOverview: The Severn Ojibwa or the Oji-Cree language (ᐊᓂᐦᔑᓂᓃᒧᐏᐣ, Anishininiimowin; Unpointed: ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᒧᐏᐣ) is the indigenous name for a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken in a series of Oji-Cree communities in ... 0
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Miami-Illinois language
languageOverview: Miami–Illinois (endonym: myaamia) is an Indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River ... 0
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Massachusett language
Algonquian language spoken by indigenous communities in the United States
Overview: The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern Massachusetts. In its revived form, it is ... 0
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Tuscarora language
language
Overview: Tuscarora, sometimes called Skarò˙rə̨ˀ, is the Iroquoian language of the Tuscarora people, spoken in southern Ontario, Canada, North Carolina and northwestern New York around Niagara Falls, in the United ... 0
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Unami language
Language spoken by the Lenape people
Overview: Unami (Delaware: Wënami èlixsuwakàn) is an Algonquian language initially spoken by the Lenape people in the late 17th century and the early 18th century, in the southern two-thirds of present-day New ... 0
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Iroquoian languages
Native American language family
Overview: The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking ... 0
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Mohawk language
Iroquoian language spoken by Mohawks in the United States and Canada
Overview: Mohawk or Kanienʼkéha ("[language] of the Flint Place") is an Iroquoian language currently spoken by around 3,500 people of the Mohawk nation, located primarily in current or former Haudenosaunee ter ... 0
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Algonquin language
Distinct Algonquian-Ojibwe language of Ontario and QuebecOverview: Algonquin (also spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: Anicinàbemowin or Anishinàbemiwin) is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect ... 0
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Cree language
Algonquian dialect continuum spoken across Canada
Overview: Cree (KREE; also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories ... 0
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Etchemin language
LanguageOverview: Etchemin was a language of the Algonquian language family, spoken in early colonial times on the coast of Maine. The word Etchemin is thought to be either French alteration of an Algonquian word for 'canoe' ... 0
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