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Indigenous languages of South America. The principal families of South America (except Quechua, Aymaran, and Mapuche). The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity, but, as the number of speakers of indigenous languages is diminishing, it is ...
Arawak ( Locono, Lokono, Aruak, Arowak) Iñeri ( Igneri, Island Carib) (dialects or languages) Kalhíphona † ( Island Carib) Garífuna ( Black Carib) Eastern branch. Palikur ( Palikour, Palicur, Palijur) (dialects or languages) Marawán-Karipurá †. Southern division. Western branch.
Main languages. Spanish is the most spoken language of South America with Portuguese as a very close second. Other official languages with substantial number of speakers are: Aymara in Bolivia and Peru. Guaraní in Bolivia and Paraguay. Quechua in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Language. Speakers. Countries.
Over a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common ...
The United Nations and nearly all of its member states maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya, and do not recognise Jerusalem as the capital;[21] however, in May 2018, the United States and Guatemala moved their official embassies to Jerusalem, and several other UN member states indicated that they ...
The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
The languages have unusually large vowel and unusually small consonant inventories. Cariban: consisting of 40-50 languages. They are mostly found in the very north of South America, with some outliers closer to the Basin. Arawakan: consisting of 70-80 languages. They cluster in the south, west and northwest of the region.