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  2. Linguistic areas of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Plains Linguistic Area, according to Sherzer (1973:773), is the "most recently constituted of the culture areas of North America (late eighteenth and nineteenth century)." Languages are Athabaskan , Algonquian , Siouan , Tanoan , Uto-Aztecan , and Tonkawa .

  3. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Although both North and Central America are very diverse areas, South America has a linguistic diversity rivalled by only a few other places in the world with approximately 350 languages still spoken and several hundred more spoken at first contact but now extinct. The situation of language documentation and classification into genetic families ...

  4. Languages of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee is one of the few, or perhaps the only, Native American language with an increasing population of speakers, [115] and along with Navajo it is the only indigenous American language with more than 50,000 speakers, [116] a figure most likely achieved through the tribe's 10-year long language preservation plan involving growing new ...

  5. Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands - Wikipedia

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    The Plains Indians culture area is to the west; the Subarctic area to the north. The Indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands spoke languages belonging to several language groups, including Algonquian, [2] Iroquoian, [2] Muskogean, and Siouan, as well as apparently isolated languages such as Calusa, Chitimacha, Natchez, Timucua, Tunica and ...

  6. Languages of North America - Wikipedia

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    North America is home to many language families and some language isolates.In the Arctic north, the Eskimo–Aleut languages are spoken from Alaska to Greenland.This group includes the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands, the Yupik languages of Alaska and the Russian Far East, and the Inuit languages of Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland.

  7. Linguistics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Linguistic Society of America has over 4000 members across the globe. It is made up of students, teachers, and individuals with a passion for linguistics and its field of study. Most of the Linguistic Society of America's members are either working towards a degree in the field or have already earned one.

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  9. Classification of the Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    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 ...