arawakan languages - EAS
Arawakan languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawakan_languagesWebArawakan languages tend to distinguish alienable and inalienable possession. A feature found throughout the Arawakan family is a suffix (whose reconstructed Proto-Arawakan form is /*-tsi/) that allows the inalienable (and obligatorily possessed) body-part nouns to remain unpossessed.
List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English...WebThis is a list of English language words borrowed from indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French.It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the …
Endangered Languages Project
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Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukotko-Kamchatkan_languagesWebThe Chukotko-Kamchatkan or Chukchi–Kamchatkan languages are a language family of extreme northeastern Siberia.Its speakers traditionally were indigenous hunter-gatherers and reindeer-herders. Chukotko-Kamchatkan is endangered.The Kamchatkan branch is moribund, represented only by Western Itelmen, with only 4 or 5 elderly speakers left.The …
Languages of North America - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_North_AmericaWebThe 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, and to a lesser extent French, and especially in the Caribbean, creole languages lexified by them.
Indigenous languages of the Americas - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_AmericasWebOver a thousand known languages were spoken by various peoples in North and South America prior to their first contact with Europeans. These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts in Newfoundland and Labrador) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher …
Iroquoian languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquoian_languagesWebThe Iroquoian languages are a language family of indigenous peoples of North America.They are known for their general lack of labial consonants.The Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking.. As of 2020, all surviving Iroquoian languages are severely or critically endangered, with only a few elderly speakers …
Language family - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_familyWebLanguage families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.A family is a monophyletic unit; all its members derive from a common ancestor, and all attested descendants of that ancestor are included in the family. . (Thus, …
Dené–Yeniseian languages - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dené–Yeniseian_languagesWebDené–Yeniseian is a proposed language family consisting of the Yeniseian languages of central Siberia and the Na-Dené languages of northwestern North America.. Reception among experts has been somewhat favorable; thus, Dené–Yeniseian has been called "the first demonstration of a genealogical link between Old World and New World language …
List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_time_of_extinctionWebArawakan: Mucuim River, Amazonas, Brazil: A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1833. after 1832 Charrúa language: Charruan languages: Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay: after 1832 Guenoa language: Charruan languages: Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay: after 1832: Aroaqui: Arawakan: Lower Rio Negro Brazil: A word list was …