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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
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- Commons category
- Algic languages
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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.