543: miami Jun 3, 2016

What is now the U.S. state of Florida was formerly a Spanish colony, and still has a culture that is heavily influenced by Latin-America and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, 'Miami' comes not from Spanish, but from French who used the word from Algonquin. The Miami were a separate group from the Algonquins, but their languages belongs to the Algonuin-subgroup of Algic family, and the word was the same for both groups.

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