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The following Algic Languages tree is based on the information in the Ethnologue.

Algic Languages

Algonquian Stock

Central Family

Cree Branch

Atikamekw (Canada)
Central Cree (Canada)
Coastal Eastern Cree (Canada)
Inland Eastern Cree (Canada)
Western Cree (Canada)
Montagnais (Canada)

Ojibwa Branch

Algonquin (Canada)
Eastern Ojibwa (Canada)
Northern Ojibwa (Canada)
Western Ojibwa (Canada)
Kikapoo (USA)
Menomini (USA)
Mesquakie (USA)
Miami (USA)
Potawatomi (USA)
Shawnee (USA)

Eastern Family

Abenaki-Penobscot (USA)
Malecite-Passamaquoddy (Canada)
Mi'kmaq (Canada)
Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett (USA)
Munsee (Canada)
Nanticoke (USA)
Naskapi (Canada)
Powhatan (USA)
Unami (USA)
Wampanoag (USA)

Plains Family

Blackfeet (USA)
Cheyenne (USA)

Arapaho Branch

Arapaho (USA)
Gros Ventre (USA)

Unclassified Algic Family

Lumbee (USA)

Wiyot Stock

Wiyot (USA)

Yurok Stock

Yurok (USA)

Sites about the language, Algonquin, go in the subcategory Algonquin. Sites about the Algonquian (or Algic) language family go here. It is just like German and Germanic languages. There are many Algonquian languages, Algonquin is only one.

Algonkin

Sites about the Algonkin or Algonquin language, spoken by about 3000 people in Québec and Ontario.
This category is for the Algonkin/Algonquin language. Sites about the Algonquian language family should go here: http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages/Algic/

The Algonquian language family is a subset of the Algic language family. Algonquin is a single language, just as German is a single language from the Germanic language family.

Attikamekw

Attikamekw, also spelled Attikamek, Atikamekw, or Attimewk, sometimes called Tete de Boule, is spoken by 3000 people in Quebec.

Beothuk

The Beothuk language is thought by most to have been an Algonquian language, but data is limited and its affiliation isn't known for certain.

Blackfoot

Blackfoot is the Algonquian language of the Blood, Peigan (Piikani) and Siksika tribes in southern Alberta and Northern Montana. It is currently polarizing into generationally distinct dialects of Old Blackfoot and New Blackfoot.
Please send sites related to the Blackfeet people to the Blackfeet Tribe category.

Cheyenne

Open to sites related to the Plains Algonquian language of Cheyenne.
Please send sites related to the Cheyenne people to the Cheyenne Tribe category.

Cree

Cree is an Algonquian language spoken by 45,000 people throughout southern Canada and the north-central United States.
Please send sites related to the Cree people to the Cree Tribe category.

Gros Ventre

Gros Ventre is also called Atsina, A'aninin, or Aane.

Lenape

The Lenape or Delaware language is spoken by only a handful of elders in New Jersey and Delaware now. Munsee Delaware, a closely related language, is spoken by a few elders in Canada.
Munsee has its own category, Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Natural Languages: Algic Languages: Munsee. Please put sites about Munsee Delaware there.

Lumbee

The Lumbee or Croatan language is extinct now, but the Lumbee dialect of English is still spoken in North Carolina.

Maliseet-Passamaquoddy

Maliseet (or Malecite) and Passamaquoddy are mutually comprehensible and considered dialects of the same language.

Michif

Michif, or Mitchif, is a unique French-Cree creole.

Míkmaw

Sites related to Míkmawísimk, the Algonquian language of the Míkmaq people of Eastern Canada.
Please submit general sites for the Míkmaq people to the Míkmaq Tribe. category.

Mohican

Actually, these are two Algonquian languages, Mahican (Stockbridge) and Mohegan (dialects of which included Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, or Niantic). They are closely related and have similar names--not unlike, say, Slovenian and Slovak--but are distinct. Unfortunately, the point is moot, for both languages are extinct.

Montagnais and Naskapi Innu

The Montagnais and Naskapi consider themselves the same people, Innu. But their languages have diverged enough that many linguists consider them distinct.

Munsee

Munsee Delaware is an Algonquian language closely related to American Delaware, or Lenape. It is spoken by only a handful of elders in Ontario now.
American Delaware has its own category, http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Language_and_Linguistics/Natural_Languages/Algic_Languages/Lenape/. Please submit sites about Lenape there.

Ojibwe-Anishinaabemowin-Chippewa

Ojibwe (or Ojibway), Anishinaabemowin (or Anishinabe), and Chippewa are all the same language, spoken by 50,000 people in the northern US and southern Canada. Ottawa and Oji-Cree are dialects of Ojibwe.

Powhatan

The Powhatan language was an Algonquian language, also known as Virginian Algonkian. Sadly, it is now extinct.
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