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Mapudungun
Mapudungun (from 'land' and 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also rendered as Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) or Mapuche ( , ; from 'land' and 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') is a language, either a language isolate or member of the small Araucanian family related to Huilliche, spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It was formerly known as Araucanian, the name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish. The Mapuche avoid this term as a remnant of Spanish colonialism.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl ( ; hispanicized from Nawatl ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller populations in the United States. Nahuatl has been spoken in central Mexico since at least the seventh century AD. It was the language of the Mexica, who dominated what is now central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history. During the centuries preceding the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the Azt
Ainu
language(s) spoken by Ainu ethnic groups in Hokkaido, Kuril and Sakhalin
Navajo
Athabaskan language of Na-Dené stock spoken in the southwestern United States
Cherokee
Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people
Chukchi
Palaeosiberian language
Iñupiaq
group of dialects of the Inuit language
Nivkh
Palaeosiberian languages spoken in Eastern Siberia and Sakhaline
Ojibwe
Central Algonquian language
Cheyenne
indigenous language of the United States
polysynthetic language
highly inflected language with many morphemes per word
Ithkuil
Ithkuil is an experimental constructed language created by John Quijada. It is designed to express more profound levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and clearly, particularly about human categorization. It is a cross between an a priori philosophical and a logical language. It tries to minimize the vagueness and semantic ambiguity in natural human languages. Ithkuil is notable for its grammatical complexity and extensive phoneme inventory, the latter being simplified in an upcoming redesign. The name "Ithkuil" is an anglicized form of Iţkuîl, which in the original form roughly meant
Blackfoot
indigenous language of the northwestern Great Plains of North America
Mohawk
Indigenous language spoken by Mohawk peoples in North America
Alyutor
language of Russia that belongs to the Chukotkan branch of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
Purépecha
language isolate or small language family spoken by a quarter million Purépecha in the highlands of the Mexican state of Michoacán
Tiwi
indigenous Australian language
Yanomaman
language family
Kott
extinct Yeniseian language that was formerly spoken in central Siberia by the banks of Mana River, a tributary of the Yenisei river
Yana
extinct language
Karuk
language
Pawnee
language
Murrinh-patha
language
Awtuw
language
Paraguayan Guaraní
national language of Paraguay