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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples. Over a thousand of these languages are still used today, while many more are now extinct. The Indigenous languages of the Americas are not all related to each other; instead, they are ...
- Indigenous Peoples of The Americas
Nonetheless, of the Indigenous peoples in Mexico, 93% are...
- Indigenous languages of South America
The indigenous languages of South America are those whose...
- Indigenous language
t. e. An indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is...
- Indigenous Peoples of The Americas
Sapir's classifies all the languages in North America into only 6 families: Eskimo–Aleut, Algonkin–Wakashan, Na-Dene, Penutian, Hokan – Siouan, and Aztec–Tanoan. Sapir's classification (or something derivative) is still commonly used in general languages-of-the-world type surveys.
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America north of Mexico, taken as a whole, had about 300 distinct languages, spoken by a population estimated at about 1.5 million. Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America) had a much larger Indian population—estimated at about 20 million—which spoke at least 80 languages.
Indigenous peoples of the Americas/Intro. The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South, and Central America, and their descendants. Pueblos indígenas (indigenous peoples) is a common term in Spanish-speaking countries. Aborigen (aboriginal/native) is used in Argentina, whereas "Amerindian" is used ...
