阿尔冈昆语族

阿爾岡昆語族（）是美洲原住民語言的一支，是阿尔吉克语系下最主要的一个语族。使用者从北美洲东岸一直延伸到落基山脉。大約2,500到3,000年前，人們使用了該語族所有語言的祖語——原始阿爾岡昆語。對於使用該語言的地方，學術界還沒有達成共識。语族下不少语言处于濒危，有一些已经消亡。

參考文獻

 Ethnologue.com , Ethnologue entry for Algonquian languages
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參見
(Mohican language)

外部連結
Algonquian family words 
Comparative Algonquian Swadesh vocabulary lists  (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix )

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