designating or of a widespread family of over twenty languages spoken by North American Indian peoples, including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Ojibwa, Fox, Shawnee, Abenaki, and Delaware
noun
this family of languages
a member of a people speaking any of these languages
See Algonquian in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ăl-gŏngˈkwē-ən, -kē-ən) also Al·gon·ki·an(-kē-ən)
nounpl.AlgonquianAlgonquian or Al·gon·qui·ans also Algonkian or Al·gon·ki·ans
A family of North American Indian languages spoken or formerly spoken in an area from Labrador to the Carolinas between the Atlantic coast and the Rocky Mountains.
A member of a people traditionally speaking an Algonquian language.