The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family. Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of some seventeen or more languages occupying contiguous territory on the Atlantic coast of North America and adjacent inland areas, from the Canadian Maritime provinces to North Carolina. Many of the Eastern Algonquian languages are now extinct, and the available information about individual languages varies widely.

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  • The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family. Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of some seventeen or more languages occupying contiguous territory on the Atlantic coast of North America and adjacent inland areas, from the Canadian Maritime provinces to North Carolina. Many of the Eastern Algonquian languages are now extinct, and the available information about individual languages varies widely. Some are known only from one or two documents containing words and phrases collected by missionaries, explorers or settlers, and some documents contain fragmentary evidence about more than one language or dialect. Eastern Algonquian constitutes a separate genetic subgroup within the Algonquian family. The Eastern Algonquian languages are hypothesized to descend from Proto-Eastern Algonquian, an intermediate common language that is itself descended from Proto-Algonquian. Two other groups of Algonquian languages are sometimes recognized, Plains Algonquian, and Central Algonquian; these are geographic terms of convenience, and do not refer to genetic subgroupings.
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  • Eastern Algonkian
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  • Eastern Algonquian
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  • The Eastern Algonquian languages constitute a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family. Prior to European contact, Eastern Algonquian consisted of some seventeen or more languages occupying contiguous territory on the Atlantic coast of North America and adjacent inland areas, from the Canadian Maritime provinces to North Carolina. Many of the Eastern Algonquian languages are now extinct, and the available information about individual languages varies widely.
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  • Eastern Algonquian languages
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