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The linguistic areas identified so far deserve more research to determine their validity. Knowing about Sprachbunds helps historical linguists differentiate between shared areal traits and true genetic relationship. The pioneering work on American areal linguistics was a dissertation by Joel Sherzer, which was published as Sherzer (1976).
In the early twentieth century, German was the most widely studied foreign language in the United States, and prior to World War I, more than 6% [citation needed] of American schoolchildren received their primary education exclusively in German, though some of these Germans came from areas outside Germany.
The following is a list of communities in the United States where the English language is not the majority language spoken at home according to data from the United States 2022 5-year American Community Survey. The list contains 1,603 communities in 44 states, with 1,101 of these having Spanish as the plurality language, 89 an Indo-European ...
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.
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 ...
Lyle Campbell (2012) proposed the following list of 53 uncontroversial indigenous language families and 55 isolates of South America – a total of 108 independent families and isolates. [14] Language families with 9 or more languages are highlighted in bold. The remaining language families all have 6 languages or fewer.
Adai language; Afro-Seminole Creole; Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics; Algonquian languages; Algonquin language; American Finnish; American Norwegian; American Sign Language; Arapahoan languages; Atakapa language; Athabaskan languages; Atsugewi language
Linguistic areas of the Americas; List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas ... List of Spanish words of Indigenous American ...