Proto-Algic language
| Proto-Algic | |
|---|---|
| PAc | |
| Reconstruction of | Algic languages | 
| Region | Columbia Plateau? | 
| Era | ca. 5000 BCE | 
| Lower-order reconstructions | |
Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc) is the proto-language from which the Algic languages (Wiyot language, Yurok language, and Proto-Algonquian) are descended. It is estimated to have been spoken about 7,000 years ago somewhere in the American Northwest, possibly around the Columbia Plateau. It is an example of a second-level proto-language (a proto-language whose reconstruction depends on data from another proto-language, namely its descendant language Proto-Algonquian) which is widely agreed to have existed. Its main researcher was Paul Proulx.