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In the North American Arctic region, Greenland in 2009 elected Kalaallisut [10] as its sole official language. In the United States, the Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language, with more than 200,000 speakers in the Southwestern United States.
Normally the fewer the speakers of a language the greater the degree of endangerment, but there are many small Native American language communities in the Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico) which continue to thrive despite their small size. In 1929, speaking of indigenous Native American languages, linguist Edward Sapir observed: [114]
In American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America, Lyle Campbell describes various pidgins and trade languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of the Americas. [20] Some of these mixed languages have not been documented and are known only by name. Medny Aleut (Copper Island Aleut) Chinook Jargon; Broken Slavey (Slavey ...
The name "American Samoa" first started being used by the U.S. Navy around 1904, [112] and "American Samoa" was made official in 1911. [113] District of Columbia: 1738: Neo-Latin: Columbia: Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December ...
Native American language revitalization (1 C, 134 P) ... Pages in category "Indigenous languages of the United States" The following 7 pages are in this category, out ...
Saparo–Yawan languages; Sechura–Catacao languages; Sinacantán language; Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; Template:South American languages; List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin
Navajo is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United States, especially in the Navajo Nation. It is one of the most widely spoken Native American languages and is the most widely spoken north of the Mexico–United States border, with almost 170,000 Americans speaking Navajo at home as of 2011.
They are not demonstrably related to the other language families of North America [6] and are believed to represent a separate, and the last, prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The Alaska Native Language Center believes that the ancestral Eskaleut language divided into the Eskimoan and Aleut branches at least 4,000 years ago.