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Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
American Sign Language
sign language used predominately in the United States
Algonquian
subfamily of Native American languages
Athabaskan
large group of indigenous languages of North America
Iroquoian languages
linguistic family
Tlingit
language of southeast Alaska and western Canada
Mohawk
Indigenous language spoken by Mohawk peoples in North America
languages of the United States
languages of a geographic region
Mi'kmaq
Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States
Hopi
Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of Arizona
Michif
Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French). The fathers of the Metis Nation were also known as voyageurs, the expert canoeists whose main occupation involved traveling long distances and trading with First Nations. This occupation also required forging relationships and common language with Indigenous contacts. The voyageurs and Indigenous women began intermarr
Tsimshianic
language family
Chinook Jargon
pidgin language of northwest North America
Algonquin
distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect
Chinookan
language family
Hän
native American endangered language
O'odham
Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Mexico and US
Massachusett
Algonquian language spoken by indigenous communities in the United States
Mokilese
language
Kiowa
Tanoan language
Chitimacha
language
Miami-Illinois
language
Yaqui
Native American language of the Uto-Aztecan family
Afro-Seminole Creole
English-based creole
Tuscarora
language
Atakapa
extinct language of southern United States
Kalapuyan
language family
Mandan
extinct Siouan language
Adai
language
Eastern Algonquian
subgroup of the Algonquian languages
Onondaga
Iroquoian language native to the southern shores of lake Ontario in NE North America
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
Algonquian language
Mahican
language
Oneida
language
Sekani
language
Hidatsa
North American language
Menominee
Algonquian language
Maricopa
language
Chippewa
Algonquian language; southwestern variety of Ojibwe
Cahto
extinct Athabaskan language
Biloxi
language
Shuswap
language
Tübatulabal
language
Atsugewi
language
Mohegan-Pequot
extinct Eastern Algonquian language
Thompson
Interior Salishan language
Okanagan
Salish language spoken in British Columbia, Canada and Washington, United States
Arapahoan
Algonquian language family
Chemakum
language
Nunivak Cup'ig
language
Yoncalla
language
Piro Pueblos
Historical pueblo in Rio Grande Valley
Piman
group of languages spoken by ethnic groups from Arizona, US to Durange, Mexico
Twana
language
Nawathinehena
language
Tiwa
language family in New Mexico, United States
Quileute
language
Catawban
language family
Quiripi
language
Ofo
language