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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: How many Native American languages are there?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20810

Blurb:

Many believe there is just one language native to the U.S.: ‘Indian’. However, there is evidence of nearly three hundred languages spoken north of Mexico before the arrival of Europeans.

Chapter Contributors

  • Marianne Mithun (Mithun@equinoxpub.com - mmithun)