1. Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language
   "The anthropologist specialized in Algonquian languages";
   - Algonkian, Algonquin

1. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
   - Algonquin, Algonquian language
    
2. A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
   - Algonquin

Derived forms: Algonquians

Type of: American Indian, American Indian language, American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerind language, Amerindian, Amerindian language, Indian, Indian language, Native American

Encyclopedia: Algonquian