Pawnee (USA) (dialects: South Bend, Skiri (a.k.a. Mahican (also known as Mohican) (Extinct) Quiripi (also known as Quinnipiak or Connecticut) †īlackfoot (Canada) and Blackfeet (United States) Powhatan (United States) (also known as Virginia Algonquian) † Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett (United States) (aka Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk) Micmac (Canada and United States) (also known as Mic Mac, Mi’kmaq, Mi’gmaq, or Mi’kmaw) Malecite-Passamaquoddy (Canada) (also known as Maliseet-Passamquoddy).Western Abnaki (Canada) (also known as Abnaki, St.Loup A (probably Nipmuck) (uncertain) †.Penobscot (also known as Old Town or Old Town Penobscot).Eastern Abnaki,(United States)(also known as Abenaki or Abenaki-Penobscot).Miami (United States) (aka Illinois and Illinois-Miami) (Officially extinct but a revitalization program is in progress since an extensive dictionary exists) Carolina Algonquian (United States) (also known as Pamlico, Pamtico, Pampticough, Christianna Algonquian) †.Native American Languages in the United States The classification below is a composite of Goddard (1996), Campbell (1997), and Mithun (1999). For as long as one person speaks a language, that language’s people and traditions and history will survive and thrive. We believe that languages have a spirit all their own.It is our vision for the future to once again hear whole generations of native people fluently speaking thier native languages. When our children were sent to government boarding schools, they were severely punished for speaking our native languages, and over time many of them were nearly forgotten. One estimate predicts that number will dwindle to less than 20 by the year 2050. Since then, that number has dropped to about 175 indigenous languages. Language scholars estimate that before the time of Columbus, over 300 languages were spoken in North America north of Mexico. Many indigenous languages of the Americas are endangered, and many others are extinct, with no living native speakers. Fifty-eight indigenous languages have fewer than 1,000 fluent speakers, twenty-five have 1,000-10,000 speakers, and only 8 native american languages have more than 10,000 speakers. Seventy-four native american languages are almost extinct, with only a handful of elderly speakers. In the US, 165 native american languages are still spoken. There are more than 800 indigenous languages in the Western Hemisphere. In the world today, approximately 6,000 languages are spoken, and only about 600 languages are expected to survive this century. At the time of Columbus’ arrival, America had a population of 75,000,000 people that spoke 2,000 languages in North, Central, and South America.
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