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Cherokee is one of the few, or perhaps the only, Native American language with an increasing population of speakers, [119] and along with Navajo it is the only indigenous American language with more than 50,000 speakers, [120] a figure most likely achieved through the tribe's 10-year long language preservation plan involving growing new ...
This category is for languages spoken in the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), whether indigenous or introduced by immigrants. The main article for this category is Languages of the United States .
The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages in North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean islands) are English, Spanish, and to a lesser extent French, and especially in the Caribbean, creole languages lexified by them.
Looking at families rather than individual languages, he found a rate of 30% of families/protolanguages in North America, all on the western flank, compared to 5% in South America and 7% of non-American languages – though the percentage in North America, and especially the even higher number in the Pacific Northwest, drops considerably if ...
Proposition 63 is unenforceable due to the lack of appropriate legislation, [4] and the Bilingual Services Act provides for the use of other languages in public outreach. [5] Colorado: Yes: None: since 1988; [1] from 1876–1990 the Colorado Constitution required laws to be published in English, Spanish, and German [6] Connecticut: No: None [1 ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Official language in: the American state of Hawaii; Hebrew – עברית Official language in: Israel; The Hebrew language is a Jewish liturgical language; Herero – Otjiherero Spoken in: Botswana and Namibia; Hiligaynon – Ilonggo Spoken in the provinces of Iloilo and in Negros Occidental in the Philippines; Hill Mari – Мары ...
English language in North America (5 C, 7 P) Extinct languages of North America (17 C, 207 P) N. North America Native-based pidgins and creoles (1 C, 17 P)