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The there were hundreds of Native languages. Depending on how you count there were around 300. There were probably a higher number but some went extinct to early to be documented. They are grouped by linguists into 29 language families and 27 language isolates. An example of a language family is English is in Indo European which includes Hindi, Greek, Russian, Latin, German, and Persian and many others. Hebrew is in the same family as Arabic. Turkish is in a family with Kazakh and Finnish.
California alone had 74 languages in 18 families.
Linguists have long tried to ink these language families to ones in Asian with little success. Inuti languages have close relationships with speakers across the Bering sea in Russia. It is thought that Na Dene ( athabaskan) family is related to the Yenisei (like Ket) languages east of Lake Baikal.
The 19th century American folk belief that there is some relation to Hebrew has no basis in reality. It was incorporated into Mormon belief by Joseph Smith.
One can learn many native languages today from college classes, headstart classes, books, cds, dvds, apps and computer programs or visit a tribe such as Navajo or Hopi where the language is still living and used by many people.
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Most Native Americans speak English. But some do not. On the Navajo Nation, in the southwest, it is estimated that about 2.9% of the people, mostly elderly are monolingual in Navajo. That would be about 5000 people. About 200,000 speak Navajo and English (2/3rds). Many elderly Yup'ik are monolingual as well. The last monolingual Chickasaw speaker died this year. There are about 50 monolingual Cherokee speakers. On the Crow nation about half the population speaks Crow (Apsáalooke). Cree speakers are about 70,000. Inuktitut are 36,000 (100,000 speakers of all Inuit languages). There are about 50,000 Ojibwe speakers. There are many more.
In Canada the Province of Nunavut has Inuit as its official language as well as English and French. About 69% of the population speaks it.
Also, one should note that not all Native American speaker are in the US and Canada. Mexico is also in North America and many people speak other languages than Spanish. Here are some estimates of speakers of the 12 biggest groups: Nahuatl-- 2 million, Mayan - 6 million, Mixtec-475,000, Zapotec--450,000, Otomi--285,000, Totonac--240,000, Mazatec--220,000, Chinantec- 135,000, Mixe--130,000, Purepecha--125,000, Tlapanec--120,000, Tarahumara--85,000.
Note that Native Americans do speak English but they have their own language as well. Native Americans consist of many tribes. Each Native American tribe has their own language and that tribe may or may not still speak it. There are 310 reservations in the United States but not all native American tribes have their own reservation.
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What were Native Americans?
native americans were americans that were native
What do Indians hold to talk things over?
A meeting that Native Americans hold to talk/discuss things is referred to as a pow-wow.
What do the native Americans believe about their dead?
It depends on who you talk to. My dead family members sit on the side of Christ.
Inuit Native Americans?
Are Inuits Native Americans?
Who United Native Americans?
the native americans
They were inhabited by native Americans?
They inhabit by a native Americans
Who were the frist people of Canada?
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What did Native Americans fish with?
Native Americans fished with their hands
When did they become native Americans?
they became native Americans in 1982
What religion was Native Americans?
Native Americans had a spiritual belief
