Algic family
Mi'kmaq
1500 CE – today Living
Mi'kmaq (1500 CE – today) is a living Algic language. Lineage: Proto-Algic → Proto-Algonquian → Proto-Eastern Algonquian → Mi'kmaq.
See Mi'kmaq on the interactive map- Speakers
- 7K (7,000)
- ISO 639-3
- mic
- Glottocode
- mikm1235
Spoken in the Canadian Maritimes and Maine. The most divergent Eastern Algonquian language.
Lineage
- Proto-Algicc. 5,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
- Proto-Algonquianc. 1,000 BCE – 0 CE
- Proto-Eastern Algonquianc. 0 CE – 800 CE
- Mi'kmaq1500 CE – today
Sister languages 3
Also descended from Proto-Eastern Algonquian.