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Algonquian

noun

🔊/ælˈɡɒŋkwiən/, 🔊/ælˈɡɒŋkiən/

🔊/ælˈɡɑːŋkwiən/, 🔊/ælˈɡɑːŋkiən/

[uncountable]

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a large family of North American Indian languages
Word Originfrom Algonquin (French, contraction of obsolete Algoumequin, from a Micmac word meaning ‘at the place of spearing fish and eels’) + -ian. Micmac is an Algonquian language.