Native American languages

Native American languages

• Eskimo-Aleutian languages
  • Yup'ik language
  • Inuit languages
    • Inupiaq
    • Inuktitut
• Salishan languages
• Na-Dené languages
  • Athapaskan-Eyak
    • Ahtna language: 80 speakers, (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Beaver language
    • Chipewyan language
    • Eyak language: 1 speaker, (N. Barnes, 1996)
    • Northern Haida language: 15 fluent speakers, (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Han language: 7 or 8 fluent speakers, (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Holikachuk language: 12 fluent speakers, (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Koyukon language: 300 speakers (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Tanaina language: 75 or fewer speakers (M. Krauss, 1997)
    • Lower Tanana language: 30 or fewer speakers (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Upper Tanana language: 105 or fewer speakers (M. Krauss, 1995)
    • Tolowa language: 5 speakers (SIL, 1977)
  • Apachean languages
    • Jicarilla Apache language: 812 speakers, (1990 census)
    • Kiowa Apache language: 18 speakers, (1990 census)
    • Lipan Apache language: 2 or 3 speakers, (1981 R.W. Young)
    • Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache language: 1,800 speakers, incl. 279 Chiricahua speakers (1990 census)
    • Western Apache language: 12,693 speakers (1990 census)
    • Navajo language: 148,530 speakers, (1990 census)
  • Athapaskan-Californian
    • Hupa language: 8 fluent speakers, (James Brook, 1998, NY Times, April 9, p A1, A20)
    • Kato (Mattole-Wailaki) language: 10 fluent speakers(?), (Chafe, 1962)
  • Tlingit language: 700 speakers (M. Krauss, 1995)
• Hokan languages
  • Lowland Yuman language
  • Cocopah language: 321 speakers (1990 census)
    • Maricopa language: 181 speakers (1990 census)
    • Mohave language: 234 speakers (1990 census)
    • Quiche language: 343 speakers (1990 census)
  • Upland Yuman
    • Havasupai language: 404 speakers (1990 census)
    • Hualapai language: 440 speakers (1990 census)
    • Yavapai language: 163 speakers (1990 census)
• Kiowa-Tanoan languages
  • Jemez (Towa) language: 1,301 speakers (1990 census)
• Eastern Keres language: total of 4,580 speakers (1990 census)
  • Cochiti language: 384 speakers (1990 census)
  • San Felipe language: 1,560 speakers (1990 census)
  • Santa Ana language: 229 speakers (1990 census)
  • Santo Domingo language: 1,880 speakers (1990 census)
  • Zia language: 463 speakers (1990 census)
• Western Keres language: total of 3,391 speakers (1990 census)
  • Acoma language: 1,696 speakers (1980 census)
  • Laguna language: 1,695 speakers (1990 census)
• Tewa language: total of 1,298 speakers (1980 census)
  • Nambe language: 50 speakers
  • Pojoaque language: 25 speakers
  • San Ildefonso language: 349 speakers
  • San Juan language: 495 speakers
  • Santa Clara language: 207 speakers
  • Tesuque language: 172 speakers
• Northern Tiwa language: 927 total speakers (1980 census)
  • Picuris language: 101 speakers (1990 census)
  • Taos language: 803 speakers (1980 census)
• Southern Tiwa language: 1, 631 total speakers (1980 census)
  • Isleta language: 588 speakers (1980 census)
  • Sandia language: 43 speakers (1980 census)
• Uto-Aztecan languages
  • Shoshone language
  • Paiute language
  • Comanche language: 854 speakers (1990 census)
  • Hopi language: 5,264 speakers (1990 census)
  • O'odham (Pima-Papago) language: 11,819 speakers total (1990 census)
    • Akimel O'odham (Pima) language
    • Tohono O'odham (Papago) language
  • Yaqui language: 406 US speakers, (1990 census)
  • Nahuatl language
  • Tarahumara language
• Zuni language: 6,413 speakers (1980 census). Language isolate
• Maya languages
  • Yucatec Maya
  • Chol
  • Chorti
  • Quiché
    • Cachiquel
    • Kekchi
    • Tzutuhil
    • Pocomam
    • Mam
  • Huastec
• Algonquian languages
  • Cree language
  • Ojibwe language
  • Cheyenne language
  • Mohican
  • Blackfoot
  • Montagnais-Naskapi
  • Arapaho
• Caddoan languages
  • South Caddoan languages
    • Caddo language
  • North Caddoan languages
    • Pawnee language
    • Arikara language
    • Wichita language
    • Kitsai language
• Macro-Siouan
  • Siouan
    • Sioux
    • Crow language
  • Iroquoian
    • Mohawk
    • Huron-Wyandot
    • Oneida
    • Lenni-Lenape
• Ge-Pano-Cariban languages
  • Hixkaryana language
• Chapacuran languages
  • Wari' language
  • Tora' language
  • Oro Win language
• Mura languages
  • Pirahã language

See also: Language families and languages