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. The US Marine Corps recruited Navajo men, who were established as code talkers during World War II.

Native American languages have borrowed words from Dutch, English, French, Russian, Spanish (called hispanisms), and Swedish. Indigenous American languages have contributed numerous words to European languages, especially names for …

Alphabetic listing of Native American Indian tribes of South, Central, and North America, with links to information about each Indian tribe and its native language.

In spite of everything, there are still approximately 150 Native North American languages spoken in the United States today by more than 350,000 people, according to American Community Survey data collected from 2009 to 2013. That’s out of 350 total spoken languages in the country.

This chart lists the thirty Native American Indian languages with the most native speakers. We have included all Amerindian languages, from North America, Central America, and South America.

Alphabetical master list of Native American languages, with links to specific information about each language and its native speakers. Linguistic family groupings showing the relationships between Amerindian 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 North, Central, and South America sections; however, the classifications do not correspond to these divisions.

American Indian languages, languages spoken by the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere and their modern descendants. The American Indian languages do not form a single historically interrelated stock (as do the Indo-European …

1999年1月2日 · Current research on the native languages of the Americas is published in several periodicals, notably the International Journal of American Linguistics. The great diversity of Indian languages, however, has thus far prevented proof of common origin, and most Americanists favor more conservative classifications of the languages into a number of ...

Native American tribes have lived and thrived upon the North American landscape for thousands of years—since long before there was a United States. Historically, about 500 distinct Native languages were spoken in North America. All Code Talkers were fluent speakers of …