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Native Languages of the Americas:
Preserving and promoting American Indian languages
Welcome to Native Languages of the Americas! We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. Our website is not beautiful. Probably, it never will be. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them.
˜Native Languages of the Americas Online Resources
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.
Vocabulary word lists in various American Indian languages.
List of Native American peoples featured on our site.
Kids Menu of Native American information presented for younger readers.
List of Native American books and other resources by and about American Indians.
Links to general American Indian language resources available online.
NOTE: Some of the links we provide are more useful than others. We are not responsible for the content of any of the external sites we link to. We have tried to provide the most complete directory of Native American Indian language materials available. If a link is dead, or you have one to add, or if there is a mistake on our site you would like to correct, information you would like us to add, or admiration you wish to express, here is our contact page, also with answers to frequently asked questions. If you are looking for Orrin’s homepage, we moved it from here to give more prominence to the Native American language pages.
See our new page explaining the truth behind some of the incorrect “theories” floating around the web about Native American languages, cultures, and history.
Feel free to link to this site or to any of the pages in it. Also, you have our permission to cite this information or pass it on to others in any way that would be useful. Our goal is to make it easier to learn about, preserve, and revive Native American languages by using the Internet. This is a public service on our part. All the information about American Indians and American Indian languages was written by Orrin Lewis, Laura Redish, or our friend Nancy Sherman, who has kindly agreed to let us use them. We make every possible effort to honor any request from Indian tribes and nations regarding the information we have provided about them, and we will listen carefully to requests from other people as well.
Thank you for your interest in Native American languages.
Laura Redish, Director
Orrin Lewis, Tribal Coordinator
˜Native American Language Families
Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them. There are around 25 million native speakers of the more than 800 surviving Amerind languages. The vast majority of these speakers live in Central and South America, where language use is vigorous. In Canada and the United States, only about half a million native speakers of an Amerind tongue remain.
Click on a language family to see a linguistic tree of that family and links about the group. Click on a language name to see a description and links about that language, as well as information about the American Indian people who speak it.
Algonquian Languages (Algic, Algonkian)
Abenaki-Penobscot, Algonquin, Arapaho, Attikamekw (Tête-de-Boule), Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Etchemin, Gros Ventre (Atsina), Kickapoo, Lenape (Delaware), Loup A/B, Lumbee (Croatan, Pamlico), Mahican (Mohican), Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, Menomini, Mesquakie-Sauk (Sac and Fox), Miami-Illinois, Michif (Métis), Mi’kmaq (Micmac), Mohegan (Pequot), Montagnais Innu, Munsee Delaware, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Naskapi Innu, Ojibwe (Chippewa, Ottawa), Potawatomi, Powhatan, Shawnee, Wampanoag, Wiyot, Yurok; possibly Beothuk (Red Indian)
Andean-Equatorial Languages
Arawakan Languages
Athabaskan Languages (Na-Dene)
Caddoan Languages
Chibchan Languages
Eskimo-Aleut Languages
Ge-Pano-Carib Languages (Macro-Ge)
Gulf Languages
Hokan Languages
Iroquoian Languages
Cherokee (Tsalagi)
Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
Mayan Languages
Mixe-Zoque Languages
Muskogean Languages
Oto-Manguean Languages
Penutian Languages
Salishan Languages
Siouan Languages
Uto-Aztecan Languages
Wakashan Languages
Other North American Indian Languages
Other Central American Indian Languages
Other South American Indian Languages
˜Selected Links about Native American Languages
Our site is designed to present information about American Indian languages contextually—language by language and tribe by tribe. These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group. However, our site is also unfinished and may be of limited use to people seeking information on a language we have not yet covered. For this reason, we are providing some links to the main pages of sites with information about many different Native American languages. Hopefully if you are looking for a language we have not finished work on yet, these sites can provide a starting point for your search.
Teaching Indigenous Languages: News, papers and columns about Native American language education
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Indian language news, articles, and links
Indigenous Language Institute: Organization working on American Indian language preservation programs
Native American Languages: Article by a Hopi writer on the languages of native North America
Endangered Languages: Revival and Revitalization: Laura’s essay on maintaining and reviving Native American languages
Native American Languages: Linguistic overview of the Amerindian language families, with language maps
Ethnologue of Languages: Demographic information on American Indian and other language families
Native American Languages Spoken At Home: US Census information about Native American language use
Native American Languages (USA): Linguistic maps of American Indian language use in the US
Native American Languages (Canada): Linguistic maps of Native Canadian language use
Indigenous Mexican Languages: Information about the Native American languages of Mexico
Languages of Modern Mexico: Information on Central American Indian languages
Aboriginal Languages of Canada: Site for children about indigenous Canadian languages
Numbers in North American Indian Languages: Glossary of numeral words in dozens of Native American languages
Native American Language Programs: Courses of learning for American Indian languages
Indigenous Native Americans: Indexed resources on American Indian languages and cultures
Native American Language Resources: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Languages: Links on various American Indian languages
Inwewinan Native Languages: Links on various American Indian languages
Native Languages Page: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Language Resources: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Association of Germany: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Language Families: Links on various American Indian languages
Cheyenne Language Web Site Links: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Languages: Links on various American Indian languages
Native American Language Sites: Links on various American Indian languages
Latin American Languages: Links on the Native American languages of Central and South America
Native American Tribes: Links on various Native American languages and cultures
Online Library: Native American Language and Culture: Papers and articles on Native American languages
House of the Small Langauges: North Americans: Demographics and links about Native American languages
Native American Art Native American Religions Native American Genealogy Native American Names
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