Viriginia Studies Weekly - Week 4 American Indians
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Name the three languages spoken by American Indians in Virginia:
Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian
In what Virginia regions did the American Indians who spoke each language live?
Algonquian - Coastal Plain; Siouan - Piedmont; Iroquoian - southern area of Coastal Plain and in the mountains of Virginia.
Why are most of the words in native languages unknown?
They were not written down by the people who spoke them, and they are not used much today.
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