also Algonkian, 1885, an ethnologist's word, modified from Algonquin + -ian. Both forms of the name have been used as adjectives and nouns. An American-Indian language family spread over a wide area of northeast and north-central North America, from Nova Scotia (Micmac) to Montana (Cheyenne).
双语例句
1. The Algonquian language of the Penobscot, a dialect of Eastern Abenaki.
一种东阿贝那基方言佩诺布斯科特语(指其使用的阿尔冈昆语 )
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2. The algonquian language of the Cheyenne.
夏延人所用的语音,属阿耳冈昆语族.
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3. A member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabited the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
一个以前住在加拿大的沿海诸省,属于阿尔冈琴语系的民族的人.
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4. The people against disease, famine, and the Algonquian Indians, whose land the British settlers now claimed.
