Native American Languages

Native American languages is a blanket term for the languages of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. These languages are not necessarily related, and in fact are classified into a variety of different language families.

Selected language families

• Algic
• Araucanian
• Arawakan
• Eskimo-Aleut
• Iroquoian
• Mayan
• Muskogean
• Na-Dené
• Oto-Manguean
• Siouan
• Uto-Aztecan
• Wakashan

Selected languages

• Algonquin
• Apache
• Aymara
• Cherokee
• Cheyenne
• Chickasaw
• Choctaw
• Comanche
• Cree
• Creek
• Greenlandic
• Hidatsa
• Inuktitut
• Mapuche
• Maya
• Mohawk
• Nahuatl
• Navajo
• Nuu-chah-nulth
• Ojibwe
• Quechua
• Shawnee
• Shoshone
• Shuar
• Siksika
• Sioux
  • Dakota
  • Lakota
• Taíno (dead)
• Tarascan
• Tupí (dead)
• Ute
• Yupik
• Zapotec