Can you give me a long list of the Native American tribe languages?

Answer 1

Some Native American languages include Algonquin, Arapaho, Ojibwe, Powhatan, Shawnee, Menomini and Cree. Some additional Native American languages are Etchemin, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Chinook, Nisgaa, Wintu, and Osage.

Answer 2

This is a partial list. The numbers after some names mean the number of known languages in that family. If we were doing that for European languages one example would be Romance (23),( although the exact number depends on what you count as understandable or not). This includes, Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish and many others. In the Na-Dene there are as an example there are Northern, Southern and Pacific Coast sub families. In the Southern there are 7 languages. Some have a lot of word similar like Spanish and Italian other s are more distant.

In North America there are thought to have been about 296 spoken (or formerly spoken) indigenous languages north of Mexico, 269 of which are grouped into 29 families (the remaining 27 languages are either isolates or unclassified)

Here one list, there are about 45 others that we don't know enough about to know if they were their own language or what they were related to. That list follows this one.

Adai

Algic (30)

Alsean (2)

Atakapa

Beothuk

Caddoan (5)

Cayuse

Chimakuan (2)

Chimariko

Chinookan (3)

Chitimacha

Chumashan (6)

Coahuilteco

Comecrudan (United States & Mexico) (3)

Coosan (2)

Cotoname

Eskimo-Aleut (7)

Esselen

Haida

Iroquoian (11)

Kalapuyan (3)

Karankawa

Karuk

Keresan (2)

Kutenai

Maiduan (4)

Muskogean (9)

Na-Dené (United States, Canada & Mexico) (39)

Natchez

Palaihnihan (2)

Plateau Penutian (4) (also known as Shahapwailutan)

Pomoan (7)

Salinan

Salishan (23)

Shastan (4)

Siouan-Catawban (19)

Siuslaw

Solano

Takelma

Tanoan (7)

Timucua

Tonkawa

Tsimshianic (2)

Tunica

Utian (15) (also known as Miwok-Costanoan)

Uto-Aztecan (33)

Wakashan (7)

Wappo

Washo

Wintuan (4)

Yana

Yokutsan (3)

Yuchi

Yuki

Yuman (11)

Zuni

List of languages we aren't sure about:

Eyeish

Coree

Sewee

Cusabo

Shoccoree-Eno

Pascagoula

Quinipissa

Opelousa

Pedee

Bayogoula

Okelousa

Congaree

Winyaw

Santee

Okchai-Chacato

Tequesta

Guale

Sanan

Yamasee

Akokisa

Avoye

Tocobaga

Houma

Neusiok

Ubate

Cape Fear

Pensacola

Bidai

Wateree

Mobile

Michigamea

Pakana

Saxapahaw

Keyauwee

Guachichil

Suma-Jumano

Huite

Concho

Jova

Acaxee

Xixime (Jijime)

Zacatec

Tahue

Guasave

Toboso

Answer 3

There is not a long list because so many are endangered. The ones in best shape are the ones with the most speakers or the largest percentage of speakers and ones that children are still learning at home.. The languages with the most speakers are in Mexico which people often forget is also in North America.

The top five languages with the most speakers in North America are:

Nahuatl (Mexico) -- 2 million

related Mayan languages in Mexico and Guatemala-- 6 million

Mixtec (Mexico)-- 475,000

Zapotec (Mexico) -- 450,000

Otomi (Mexico) -- 285,000

There are 8 more in Mexico with more than 85,000 speakers.

In North America north of Mexico:

Navajo is number one with 165,000 to 200,000 speakers. There is Navajo radio and newspaper and the government is done mostly in Navajo.

Cree speakers in Canada and the US are: 120,000

Varieties of Inuit speakers are about 100,000 from Alaska across Canada to Greenland. Inuktitut is one of the official languages of the Canadian Province of Nunavut and and Greenlandic is the official language of Greenland (with some speakers in Denmark)

Ojibwe has about 44,000 speakers.

There are about 18,000 Yupik speakers but not all of them are mutually understandable. Central Yup'ik has about 14,000 speakers.

Other languages are doing okay even with a smaller number of speakers because of the percentage of speakers in a small community.

For example of 10,228 Zuni, 9,500 speak Zuni

Over the 18,000 Hopi, 75% speak Hopi.

About 50% of the 12,000 Crow speak Crow

On the other hand, Choctaw has 10,000 speakers but that is out of 120,000 people so it is endangered

Dakota has 18,000 speakers but they are scattered in many communities.

Lakota which is mutually intelligible with it has 6000 speakers. There are 100,000 self identified people who are "Sioux" which can mean both.

The 7 Keres languages of the Keres Pueblo peoples are doing ok with 13,000 speakers.

Tewa Pueblo language is however endangered.

There are about 14,000 Pima speakers and it seems to be okay.

There are 18,000 speakers of different Apache languages

Yaqui, Havasupai, Hualapai, Jemez still have kids learning it at home and are said to be okay too.

Blackfoot has 10,000 speakers out 32,000, most are in Canada.

Cherokee has 16,000 speakers but that is out of almost 300,000 people so it is not doing well.

In Canadas Northwest Territory, Chipewyan, Cree, Gwich'in, Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, North Slavey, South Slavey and Tłįchǫ are all official languages but many do not have enough young speakers.

200,000 people in Canada report a native language as their mother tongue.

Answer 4

A list of Native American Indian tribe languages includes Comanche, Potawatomi, and Lakota.

Answer 5

A list of endangered Native American Indian languages includes Washo, Wintuan, Yana, Yokutsan, Yuchi, Yuki, Yuman, and Zuni.

Answer 6

The native American spoke several different languages. Some of the languages were Athabaskan, Algic, Athabaskan, Muskogean, and Siouan.

Answer 7

There were quite a few Native American languages at one time in America's history. Some of them are Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, Tonkawa, Ponca, Cheyenne, Crow, and Shoshoni.

Answer 8

There are many Native American languages that are considered dead, but of which there is mention in European texts. These include Ais, Bayogoula,Bidai,Eyeish, Houma, Koroa,and Pascagoula.