WebChinese languages, mostly Cantonese, are collectively the third most-spoken language in the United States, and are mostly spoken within Chinese-American populations and by immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, especially in California and New York. Around 2004, over 2 million Americans spoke varieties of Chinese, with Mandarin becoming …

WebSpanish is the second most spoken language in the United States.There are over 41 million people aged five or older who speak Spanish at home, and the United States has the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, ahead of Spain.Spanish is also the most learned language other than English, with about six million students. Estimates …

WebIntroduction. The Quinnipiac (occasionally spelled Quinnipiack) people—also known as Quiripi and Renapi—are speakers of the r-dialect of the Algonquian language family. (The Algonquian Language Phyla was the largest in North America and covered about one-third of the continent above Mexico.)The Quinnipiac/Quiripi/Renapi people are considered to …

WebInuktitut (/ ɪ ˈ n ʊ k t ɪ t ʊ t /; Inuktitut: [inuktiˈtut], syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from inuk, "person" + -titut, "like", "in the manner of"), also Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada. It is spoken in all areas north of the tree line [clarification needed], including parts of the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, to some ...

WebThe Menominee Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation located in northeastern Wisconsin held in trust by the United States for the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin. It is the largest Indian reservation east of the Mississippi River.In the Menominee language, it is called Omāēqnomenēw-Otāēskonenan, "Menominee Thing Set Apart", or alternatively …

WebSquamish (/ ˈ s k w ɔː m ɪ ʃ /; Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim, sníchim meaning "language") is a Coast Salish language spoken by the Squamish people of the Pacific Northwest.It is spoken in the area that is now called southwestern British Columbia, Canada, centred on their reserve communities in Squamish, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver.An archaic …

WebIñupiaq / ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ k / Iñupiaq : /iɲupiaq/, Inupiaq, Iñupiat / ɪ ˈ n uː p i æ t /, Inupiat, Iñupiatun or Alaskan Inuit is an Inuit language, or perhaps languages, spoken by the Iñupiat people in northern and northwestern Alaska, as well as a small adjacent part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. The Iñupiat language is a member of the Inuit-Yupik …

WebThe Iroquois (/ ˈ ɪr ə k w ɔɪ / or / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɑː /), officially the Haudenosaunee (/ ˌ h oʊ d i n oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n iː / meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island.They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois …

WebMartha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard from the early 18th century to 1952. It was used by both Deaf and hearing people in the community; consequently, deafness did not become a barrier to participation in public life. Deaf people who signed Martha's …

WebPennsylvania Dutch (Deitsch, Pennsilfaanisch-Deitsch or Pennsilfaanisch), referred to as Pennsylvania German in scholarly literature, is a variety of Palatine German, also known as Palatine Dutch, spoken by the Old Order Amish, Old Order Mennonites, Fancy Dutch, and other descendants of German immigrants in the United States and Canada. There are …

WebPound Ridge is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States.The population was 5,104 at the 2010 census. The town is located toward the eastern end of the county, bordered to the north and east by the town of Lewisboro, by Stamford, Connecticut and New Canaan, Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, and North Castle to the west.

WebThe Bad River LaPointe Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians or Bad River Tribe for short (Ojibwe: Mashkii ziibii) are a federally recognized tribe of Ojibwe people. The tribe had 6,945 members as of 2010. The Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of about 193.11 square miles (500.15 km 2) in …

WebLa langue des signes américaine (en anglais : American Sign Language, AmeSLan ou ASL) est la langue des signes principale aux États-Unis, au Canada anglophone (la langue des signes québécoise étant dominante au Québec) et dans une partie du Mexique.. Elle est aussi utilisée aux Philippines, Singapour, Hong Kong, République dominicaine, Haïti, …