Native American (language). There are many Native American languages, including language families and individual languages:
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Uto-AztecanA language family spoken in Mexico and the southwestern US, including Nahuatl, Comanche, and Hopi. Some words from Nahuatl have been adopted into English.
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IroquoianA language family indigenous to eastern North America, with Southern and Northern branches. Cherokee is the only known Southern Iroquoian language still spoken today, and is believed to have originated in the Great Lakes region about 3,000 years ago.
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MuskogeanA language family spoken in the Southeastern United States, with Eastern and Western branches. Choctaw and Chickasaw are both Western Muskogean languages.
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SalishanA family of about 23 languages spoken in the Pacific Northwest, Idaho, Montana, and southern British Columbia. Today, Salishan languages are spoken almost exclusively by older adults.
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AlgonquianA large language family that includes dialects spoken by tribal nations in the American northeast and the Great Lakes region. Cree is believed to have originated as a dialect of Proto-Algonquian, which was spoken between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago near the Great Lakes.
The first book published concerning Native America language, as it pertained to New England, was written by Roger Williams: A Key Into the Language of America, Or An Help To The Language of the Natives in that Part of America Called New-England; Together with Briefe Observations of The Customes, Manners, And Worships, etc. of the Aforesaid Natives (printed in London by Gregory Dexter, 1643).
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