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Languages of North America
The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages in North America (which includes Central America and the Caribbean islands) are English, Spanish, French, Danish (almost entirely exclusive to Greenland alone), and, especially in the Caribbean, creole languages lexified by them.
==Indigenous languages==
(詳細はlanguage families and some language isolates. In the Arctic north, the Eskimo–Aleut languages are spoken from Alaska to Greenland. This group includes the Aleut language of the Aleutian Islands, the Yupik languages of Alaska and the Russian Far East, and the Inuit languages of Alaska, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Greenland.〔(Eskimo–Aleut Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕
The Na-Dené languages, of which the most numerous and widespread are the Athabaskan languages, include the languages of central and eastern Alaska and northwestern Canada, as well as the Apachean languages of the Southwestern United States.〔(Athabaskan (Na-Dene) Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 The Algic languages, including the large Algonquian branch, are widespread across Canada and the United States; they include Cree, Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Mi'kmaq, and Blackfoot.〔(Algonquian Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 The Iroquoian languages dominate the area around the Saint Lawrence River and the eastern Great Lakes, but also include Cherokee.〔(Iroquoian Languages ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 The Siouan–Catawban languages, including Crow and Sioux, dominate the Great Plains. A large number of small language families are spoken in the Pacific Northwest from British Columbia to California.
The Uto-Aztecan languages are found throughout the Western United States, northern and central Mexico, and as far south as El Salvador; they include Hopi, O'odham, and Nahuatl (descended from Aztec).〔(Uto-Aztecan Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 Other large families in Mexico include the Mayan languages (also spoken in Belize and Guatemala),〔(Mayan Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 the Mixe–Zoque languages,〔(Mixe–Zoque Language Family ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 and the Oto-Manguean languages.〔(Otomanguean stock ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕 In the Caribbean, the Arawakan languages were formerly widespread, but are now limited to Garifuna on the Central American mainland; the family is still well represented in South America, however.〔(Tronco de lenguas Arawak o Arahuaco ), accessed 2007-08-31. 〕 The Chibchan languages are spoken in Costa Rica and Panama as well as South America.〔(Macro-Chibchan ), accessed 2007-08-31.〕
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