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  2. Boers - Wikipedia

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    The Boers had cut their ties to Europe as they emerged from the Trekboer group. [24] The Boers possessed a distinct Protestant culture, and the majority of Boers and their descendants were members of a Reformed Church. The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk ('Dutch Reformed Church') was the national Church of the South African Republic (1852–1902).

  3. Boer republics - Wikipedia

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    Subsequently, a number of its Dutch-speaking inhabitants trekked inland, first in smaller numbers, then in groups as large as almost a hundred people, [2] after 1834 even in groups of hundreds. There were many reasons why the Boers left the Cape Colony; among the initial reasons were the language laws.

  4. List of the United States communities where English is not ...

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    The list contains 1,603 communities in 44 states, with 1,101 of these having Spanish as the plurality language, 89 an Indo-European language other than English or Spanish, 35 an Asian or Pacific Islander language, 176 a language not yet listed, and 206 with an English plurality but not a majority.

  5. South African Argentines - Wikipedia

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    South African settlers were entirely of Boer origin. While the Afrikaans language persists within the community today, it is spoken by only around 3,000,000 individuals. Argentina was chosen as a destination due to the government’s support for colonisation and opportunities for cultural and religious autonomy.

  6. List of the United States counties where English is not the ...

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    A total of 38 United States counties have a majority of residents who speak a language other than English at home, according to data from the Modern Language Association's MLA's Data Map Center published in 2010. [1] The following is a list of U.S. counties where English is a minority language.

  7. Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Looking at families rather than individual languages, he found a rate of 30% of families/protolanguages in North America, all on the western flank, compared to 5% in South America and 7% of non-American languages – though the percentage in North America, and especially the even higher number in the Pacific Northwest, drops considerably if ...

  8. Languages of the United States - Wikipedia

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    English is the language of instruction in the territory of American Samoa, despite most students speaking Samoan as their native language. [ 69 ] There are also hundreds of language immersion and dual-language schools across the United States that teach in a variety of languages, including Spanish, Hawaiian , Chamorro , French , and Mandarin ...

  9. 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.