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Algic languages
The Algic (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan)〔Howard Berman, ''Proto-Algonquian-Ritwan Verbal Roots'', in the ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', volume 50, number 3 (July 1984)〕 languages are an indigenous language family of North America. Most Algic languages belong to the Algonquian family, dispersed over a broad area from the Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Canada. The other Algic languages are the Yurok and Wiyot of northwestern California, which despite their geographic proximity are not closely related. All these languages descend from Proto-Algic, a second-order proto-language reconstructed using reconstructed Proto-Algonquian and the attested languages Wiyot and Yurok.
==History==
The term "Algic" was first coined by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in his ''Algic Researches'', published in 1839. Schoolcraft defined the term as "derived from the words Alleghany and Atlantic, in reference to the race of Indians anciently located in this geographical area."〔Schoolcraft 1839: 12.〕 Schoolcraft's terminology was not retained. The peoples he called "Algic" were later included among the speakers of Algonquian languages.
When Edward Sapir proposed that the well-established Algonquian family was genetically related to the Wiyot and Yurok languages of northern California, he applied the term ''Algic'' to this larger family. The original Algic homeland is thought to have been located in the American Northwest somewhere between the suspected homeland of the Algonquian branch (to the west of Lake Superior according to Goddard〔Goddard 1994: 207.〕) and the earliest known location of the Wiyot and Yurok (along the middle Columbia River according to Whistler〔Moratto 1984: 540, 546, 564〕).
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