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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.
Pre-contact distribution of North American language families north of Mexico The indigenous languages of Mexico that have more than 100,000 speakers The Chibchan languages. This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas or Amerindian languages. The article is divided into ...
The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages in North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean islands) are English, Spanish, and to a lesser extent French, and especially in the Caribbean, creole languages lexified by them.
These Indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates and unclassified languages. Many proposals to group these into higher-level families have been made. According to UNESCO, most of the Indigenous American languages in North America are critically endangered and many of them are already ...
Indigenous languages of the North American Great Basin (5 C, 12 P) L. Last known speakers of a Native American language (32 P) M. Mesoamerican languages (13 C, 98 P)
Indigenous languages of North America (21 C, 30 P) ... Bible translations into Native American languages; Pierre Bottineau; Breath of Life (language restoration ...
Indigenous languages of the North American Southwest (10 C, 44 P) Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast (16 C, 52 P) Indigenous languages of the Southwestern United States (8 C, 38 P)
In North America since 1600, at least 52 Native American languages have disappeared. [4] Additionally, there are over 500 different indigenous groups in Latin America, yet at least 20 percent of them are estimated to have lost their mother tongue. [ 4 ]