Algic

Also known as Algic languages

language family

Key facts

Geographic distribution: Northern North America
Linguistic classification: One of the world's primary language families (or Algonquian–Wakashan ?)
Proto language: Proto-Algic
Subdivisions: Wiyot † Yurok ( † ) Algonquian
Iso 639 5: aql
Glottolog: algi1248
Notes: † - extinct language

via Wikipedia infobox

Article

The Algic languages (/ˈælɡɪk/ AL-ghik), also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan, are an indigenous language family of North America. Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian subfamily, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada. The other Algic languages are the Yurok and Wiyot of northwestern California, which, despite their geographic proximity, are not closely related to each other. All these languages descend from Proto-Algic, a second-order proto-language estimated to have been spoken about 5,000 years ago and reconstructed using the reconstructed Proto-Algonquian language and the Wiyot and Yurok languages.

Text in Cree. Cree is the most widely spoken Algic language.