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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.
This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The article is divided into North, Central, and South America sections; however, the classifications do not correspond to these divisions.
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Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses that constitute the Americas.
- Language Loss
- Education and Preservation
- "Treasure Language"
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Indigenous languages are disappearing for various reasons, including the mass extinction of entire speaker communities by natural disaster or genocide, aging communities in which the language is not passed on, and oppressive language planning policies that actively seek to eradicate languages. In North America since 1600, at least 52 Native America...
The preservation of Indigenous Peoples and culture is contingent on the preservation of indigenous language. According to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, it is estimated that every two weeks, one indigenous language disappears. A language is considered healthy when it gains new speakers, and becomes endangered when children...
The term "treasure language" was proposed by the Rama people of Nicaragua as an alternative to heritage language, indigenous language, and "ethnic language" since those names are considered pejorative in the local context.The term is now also used in the context of public storytelling events. The term "treasure language" references the desire of sp...
Frawley, William, & Hill, Kenneth C. (2002) Making Dictionaries: preserving indigenous languages of the Americas. Berkeley: University of California Press.Harrison, K. David (2007). When Languages die. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181920.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-518192-0.Singerman, Robert (1996). Indigenous Languages of the Americas: A Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3032-5. OCLC 605569711.Wurm, S. A. & Heyward, Ian (eds.) (2001) Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing. Paris: UNESCOPub.They usually identify the languages spoken, often their current numbers of speakers, genetic relationships among the languages, and their structural characteristics. Listed here are works that range in length from a few pages to substantial articles.
American Indian languages, languages spoken by the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere and their modern descendants.
