Algic family

Blackfoot

1500 CE – today Living

Blackfoot (1500 CE – today) is a living Algic language. Lineage: Proto-Algic → Proto-Algonquian → Blackfoot.

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ISO 639-3
bla
Glottocode
siks1238

Spoken in Alberta and Montana. The most divergent Algonquian language; it is usually treated as its own branch.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Algicc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Algonquianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
  3. Blackfoot1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Algonquian.

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