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It is impossible to give an accurate answer since many languages became extinct long before European explorers arrived to record them and others are still being discovered in South America today. The languages spoken by the Clovis people, the Mound Builders and the original occupants of Cahokia for example are unknown and unrecorded.

Only rough estimates can be made; these give around 300 known languages originally spoken north of Mexico, 27 languages in Mexico and Central America and around 1,500 in South America, totalling 1,827. There were probably many more than this.

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