księżycowy wrote:Algonquin (if I recall correctly, it's Cree, Innu-Aimun and Ojibwe)
You mean Algonquian. Algonquin is a language variety very closely related to Ojibwe.
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księżycowy wrote:Algonquin (if I recall correctly, it's Cree, Innu-Aimun and Ojibwe)
dEhiN wrote:So Algonquin and Algonquian are two different things?! Talk about confusing!
vijayjohn wrote:dEhiN wrote:So Algonquin and Algonquian are two different things?! Talk about confusing!
Yes. Algonquin is a language (or language variety, depending on whether you see it as a dialect of Ojibwe or a language in its own right), and Algonquian is the language family named after Algonquin. It's kind of like Thai (language) vs. Tày (another language) vs. Tai (group of languages; probably some people would call this a family), or Macedonia (FYROM) vs. Macedonia (Greece), or Roma vs. Rome vs. Romania, or...
vijayjohn wrote:Ethnologue seems to suggest that the language spoken closest to Barrie is Ottawa a.k.a. Odawa, which is a variety of Ojibwe. Other Algonquian languages spoken a little closer to the US border are Potawatomi, which is closely related to Ojibwe, and Munsee, which is more closely related to Lnuismk (Micmac) and was originally spoken on the other side of the border. In the other direction, closer to Lake Erie, there are Iroquoian languages spoken, namely Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Tuscarora, of which Oneida is the one that's spoken closest to Barrie.
vijayjohn wrote:How's Tamil going, dEhiN?
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