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Indigenous languages of the Americas


Many of the subcategories group these languages into geographic culture areas.

Languages that are within the same culture area are not necessarily related genetically (e.g. Chiricahua Apache is a language of the Southwest but it is not related to Hopi, another language of the Southwest. However, Chiricahua is related to Dena’ina, a language of the Subarctic spoken in Alaska).

For South America, the subcategories follow Terrence Kaufman's "geolinguistic regions":

For Central America, are mostly

The culture areas for North America follow the general received consensus:

This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total.

The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).


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