Miami-Illinois (endonym: myaamia, [mjɑːmia]), also known as Irenwa or Irenwe, is an indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily...

ancestral language again. Miami-Illinois is a polysynthetic language with complex verb morphology and fairly free word order. The Algonquian language is a...

thought the name Illinois meant 'man' or 'men' in the Miami-Illinois language, with the original iliniwek transformed via French into Illinois. This etymology...

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma (Miami-Illinois: myaamionki noošonke siipionki, meaning: "Miami homelands along the Neosho River) is the only federally recognized...

Costa in his 2003 book The Miami-Illinois Language agrees with Rhodes and Goddard that Central Algonquian has a specific language sub-branch that he refers...

published The Miami-Illinois Language in 1994 as his Ph.D. dissertation and as a book in 2003. The book reconstructs the structure of Miami-Illinois. The Myaamia...

official language of Illinois is English. Nearly 80% of the population speak English natively, and most others speak it fluently as a second language. The...

The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located...

The name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the indigenous Miami-Illinois word shikaakwa for a wild relative of the onion; it is known to botanists...

The Miami (Miami-Illinois: Myaamiaki) are a Native American nation originally speaking one of the Algonquian languages. Among the peoples known as the...

The city's name is probably derived from a corrupted version of the Miami-Illinois word teeyaahkiki, meaning: "Open country/exposed land/land in open/land...

Warraghtinooks, and Wyatanons. The Wea spoke a dialect of Miami-Illinois language, part of the Algonquian language family. The Wea lived north of the Ohio River in...

type of amusement ride. Search for "miami" on Wikipedia. Miami-Illinois language, the language spoken by the Miami tribe Maimi Yajima (born 1992), Japanese...

The genus name Asimina is adapted from the Native American (probably Miami-Illinois) name assimin or rassimin combining the root terms rassi= “divided lengthwise...

source translated in quot. 1761 at sense 1); Illinois pakani (/pakaːni/); cognates in other Algonquian languages are applied to hickory nuts and walnuts....

the Lake' (in contrast to the Miami of the Ohio or the Great Miami River, called Ahsenisiipi in the Miami-Illinois language). Maumee is an anglicized spelling...

The Cahokia (Miami-Illinois: kahokiaki) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe and member of the Illinois Confederation; their territory was...

diarist Henri Joutel. The plant, called shikaakwa (chicagou) in the Miami-Illinois language spoken by the local indigenous people, was once thought to be Allium...

Little Turtle (Miami-Illinois: Mihšihkinaahkwa) (c.1747 — July 14, 1812) was a Sagamore (chief) of the Miami people, who became one of the most famous...

(cf. Miami-Illinois: mihsisiipiiwi and Ojibwe: misiziibi, "great river," referring to the Mississippi River) and Michigan (cf. Miami-Illinois: meehcakamiwi...

wiikiaami in the Miami-Illinois language wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language wicuw in the Mohegan language ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuck language wikëwam in Unami...

Lushootseed: c̓əbal̕qid Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ciyahkehs Menominee: sāhkih Miami-Illinois: šinkohsa Miꞌkmaq: mujpej Nisga'a: lisy̓een Nishnaabemwin: zhaangwesh...

French name for the river, Ouabache. French traders had adopted the Miami-Illinois word for the river, waapaahšiiki, meaning 'it shines white', 'pure white'...

D. J. (2005). Wolfart, H. C. (ed.). "The St. Jérôme Dictionary of Miami-Illinois" (PDF). Papers of the 36th Algonquian Conference. Winnipeg: University...

exact name in the Potawatomi language may have been *mšwakig ("at the firewood-tree land"). In the Miami-Illinois language, which historically was also...

United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and...

Cherokee language name for the river and was purported to mean "winding waters". Research completed in 2017 concluded that the Miami-Illinois name Mosopeleacipi...

interacted with the Illinois before they did the Quapaw, they adopted this exonym for the more westerly people. In their language, they referred to them...

consequently has many common names. The tree's traditional name in the Miami-Illinois language is oonseentia. Native Americans so habitually made their dugout...

earlier Miami-Illinois language name was also applied to the Ohio River, Mosopeleacipi ("river of the Mosopelea" tribe). Shortened in the Shawnee language to...