Indigenous language information

indigenous language, or autochthonous language, is a language that is native to a region and spoken by its indigenous peoples. Indigenous languages are...

Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples...

national language mostly out of respect to the indigenous communities that still exist. Most indigenous languages are endangered, with some languages expected...

Mexico, Peru and the United States. At least a thousand different Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas, where there are also 574 federally recognized...

language. The majority of these languages are Indigenous, but the most common language is Spanish, the main language that about 94.4% of the population speaks...

speaks or signs 238 languages, of which approximately 217 are indigenous and others are non-indigenous . In 2005, no indigenous language was spoken by more...

native language is Javanese. Languages in Indonesia are classified into nine categories: national language, locally used indigenous languages, regional...

widely-spoken Indigenous languages. Other distinctively Australian languages include the Australian sign language Auslan, Indigenous sign languages, and Norf'k-Pitcairn...

over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most are endangered...

The languages of South America can be divided into three broad groups: the languages of the (in most cases, former) colonial powers; many indigenous languages...

The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum...

This is a list of different language classification proposals developed for the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The article is divided into North...

languages of indigenous villages spoken throughout Venezuela, and various regions also have languages of their own. There are at least forty languages spoken...

on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples including their rights to self-determination and to protect their cultures, identities, languages, ceremonies, and...

languages. The Formosan languages, a geographically designated branch of Austronesian languages, have been spoken by the Taiwanese indigenous peoples for thousands...

speakers use the language as their primary language. According to Law 19253, also known as "The Indigenous Law" (1993), indigenous languages are officially...

culture and to be delivered in their own language. A growing body of scientific literature has described Indigenous ways of learning, in different cultures...

The indigenous languages of South America are those whose origin dates back to the pre-Columbian era. The subcontinent has great linguistic diversity,...

South Sudan is a multilingual country, with over 60 indigenous languages spoken. The official language of the country is English which was introduced in...

linguistics to treat the three language families of the Caucasus as unrelated." Three of these families have no current indigenous members outside the Caucasus...

cultural-ethnicity of indigenous communities that preserve their indigenous languages, traditions, beliefs, and cultures. As a result, the count of indigenous peoples...

that there were over 250 Aboriginal languages. It is now estimated that all but 13 remaining Indigenous languages are considered endangered. Aboriginal...

less than 300,000, Vanuatu is home to 138 indigenous Oceanic languages. The country's three official languages are of foreign origin: English, French, and...

Guaraní; Bolivian Sign Language (closely related to American Sign Language). Indigenous languages and Spanish are official languages of the state according...

The indigenous languages of Malaysia belong to the Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian families. The national, or official, language is Malay which is the...

Kusunda language, which is nearly extinct today. Nepal also has at several indigenous village sign languages: Jhankot Sign Language, Jumla Sign Language, and...

the languages within that group are for the most part intelligible to a native speaker of any other language within that group. The indigenous African...

The main languages spoken in Sri Lanka are Tamil and Sinhala. Several languages are spoken in Sri Lanka within the Indo-Aryan, Austronesian, and Dravidian...

estimated languages spoken. 43 of its living languages fall into four main families—Bantu, Nilotic, Central Sudanic and Kuliak. Of these, 41 are indigenous and...

The official language of Nicaragua is Spanish;[citation needed] however, Nicaraguans on the Caribbean coast speak indigenous languages and also English...