a large family of North American Indian languages 阿尔冈昆(Algonquian):北美印第安语言的大家族 Word Originfrom Algonquin (French, contraction of obsolete Algoumequin, from a Micmac word meaning ‘at the place of spearing fish and eels’) + -ian. Micmac is an Algonquian language.