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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.
There are many other languages once spoken in South America that are extinct today (such as the extinct languages of the Marañón River basin). In Brazil, there are around 135 indigenous languages confirmed. The regions with the most speakers are North and Central-West Brazil, where there is a larger concentration of native people.
The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers. After pre-Columbian times, several Indigenous creole languages developed in the Americas, based on European, Indigenous ...
Guarani (/ ˌɡwɑːrəˈniː, ˈɡwɑːrəni / GWAR-ə-NEE, GWAR-ə-nee), [3] specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ [ʔãʋãɲẽˈʔẽ] "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch [4] of the Tupian language family. It is one of the official languages of ...
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 ...
Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan language family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside the Arawakan language area, which is otherwise now confined to the northern parts of South America, and ...
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.