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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).
The Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants . The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking .
Nanticoke River Delaware Indians The Nanticoke people are a Native American Algonquian-speaking people, whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay area, including Delaware . Today they continue to live in the Northeastern United States , especially Delaware , and in Oklahoma .
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 ...
Nahuatl (/ ˈ n ɑː w ɑː t əl /; Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwatɬ] ⓘ), known informally as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by an estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico. All Nahuan languages are indigenous to Mesoamerica.
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 ...
Archaeological research dates human habitation in the area eventually known as the Mocama Province to at least 2500 BC. [8] The area has yielded some of the oldest known pottery from what is now the United States, uncovered by a University of North Florida team on Black Hammock Island in Jacksonville, Florida's Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. [2]
In the Huron language, the Kahkwa traditional territory is called Atrakwae. [36] In English, it has been referred to as "Kahkwa territory". [37] Báxoje Máya n [25] ("Land of the Gray Snow People") Ioway country, [38] the Iowa country [39] Báxoje (Iowa/Ioway) In the Skiri Pawnee language: Pahkutawiru "among the Ioway, in Ioway country." [38]