Algonquian Database Project

This project is an NSF-funded cross-linguistic database of the components which make up words in Algonquian languages. There are two main goals:

1. To provide tribes with a source for word creation for their language revitalization/reclamation projects.

2. To provide a basis for comprehensive reconstruction of Proto-Algonquian.

This database will be a web-based, open-access, centralized resource for Algonquian word components, providing community members and linguists with a set of data that has previously been difficult to access.

This material is based upon work supported by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School and the National Science Foundation DLI-DEL program under grant number BCS1953103.

Project Team

• Monica Macaulay (@monicamacaulay), Project Lead (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Hunter Lockwood (@HunterLockwood), Co-Project Lead (The Myaamia Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oakland University)

• Daniel W. Hieber (“Danny”, @dwhieb), Lead Developer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Gabrielle Mistretta, Project Assistant (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Vade Kamenitsa-Hale (@vadekh), Undergraduate Research Assistant, Developer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Rachel Fedorchak, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bibliographer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Advisory Board

• Sarah Babinski, Yale University

• jessie little doe baird, Mashpee Wampanoag

• Daryl Baldwin, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma; Myaamia Center

• David Costa, Myaamia Center

• Marie-Odile Junker, Carleton University

• Will Oxford, University of Manitoba

• Yolanda Pushetonequa, Meskwaki Nation

• Michael Migizi Sullivan, Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Immersion School

• Rand Valentine, University of Wisconsin

• Natalie Weber, Yale University

What Does Nisinoon Mean?

Nisinoon is an Ojibwe word meaning ‘there are three’. We chose it to represent the tripartite structure of Algonquian words: initial-medial-final. Click on the word to learn more about the word and hear it pronounced.

Trillium applique by Angela Waupochick

Photo by Rodney Schreiner

License

The linguistic database in this repository is copyright to Monica Macaulay, and should not be copied, distributed, or modified without her express permission. The code in this repository is made available under an MIT license. See the license for more details.

Former Team Members

• Andrea Cudworth (@AMCudworth) Project Assistant (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2018-2019

• Thaddeus A. Dockery (“Tad”, @TadDockery), Developer (Wisconsin Historical Society)

• Alison Jozwiak Project Assistant (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2020

• Sarah Lundquist Project Assistant (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2019

• Savana Stauss Bibliographer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2018-2019

• Brock Wroblewski (@Calvin1119) Developer (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 2018-2020