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Algonquin language
Algonquin (anicinàbemowin) is the easternmost dialect of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), spoken by the Algonquin nation in western Quebec and eastern Ontario; about 1,950 speakers in the 2021 census, written in the Latin alphabet with animate/inanimate nouns and obviation.
Blackfoot language
Blackfoot (Niitsi'powahsin, Siksikai'powahsini) is the westernmost Algonquian language, spoken in southern Alberta and northern Montana; polysynthetic, severely endangered, with active community revitalization programs.
Eskimo words for snow
Eskimo words for snow: the claim that Inuit and Yupik languages have dozens or hundreds of snow words, originating with Boas (1911, four terms) and Whorf (1940), debunked by Martin (1986) and Pullum's "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax"; actual root counts, two to a dozen, match English.
Mohawk language
Mohawk (Kanien'kéha) is a Northern Iroquoian, polysynthetic language of Quebec, Ontario, and New York, written with a twelve-letter alphabet standardized in 1993, with about 1,600 Canadian census speakers and active immersion revitalization.
Ojibwe language
Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin, also Chippewa) is a Central Algonquian language of the Great Lakes, a dialect chain from Quebec to Montana, endangered in the US with under 1,000 Minnesota first-language speakers but active revitalization.