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Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
As is the case worldwide, the majority of South American languages, such as Andean languages and Bora–Witoto languages, predominantly use suffixes. It is also common to find agglutinative languages that use many suffixes and a few prefixes, as is the case with Arawakan and Pano-Tacanan languages.
Jolkesky (2016) lists 43 language families and 66 language isolates (and/or unclassified languages) in South America – a total of 109 independent families and isolates.
Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
Category: Languages of South America by country. 4 languages. ... Languages of Colombia (9 C, 102 P) E. Languages of Ecuador (23 P) G. Languages of Guyana ...
Nevertheless, in the 21st century, Quechua language speakers number roughly 7 million people across South America, [9] more than any other indigenous language family in the Americas. As a result of Inca expansion into Central Chile , there were bilingual Quechua- Mapudungu Mapuche in Central Chile at the time of the Spanish arrival .
Indigenous languages of South America (Central) (5 C, 21 P) Indigenous languages of the South American Chaco (8 C, 5 P)
Unclassified languages of South America (2 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Languages of South America" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.