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    Currently, how many Native American languages are spoken?

    Question #29916. Asked by Yank. (Mar 15 03 10:21 PM)


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    		At the time of first European contact, probably close to 1,000 American Indian languages were spoken in North, Central, and South America. Although the number of languages in daily use has steadily declined because of persecution and pressures on the Indians to adopt English, Spanish, and other originally European languages, well over 700 different American Indian--or, as they are sometimes called, Amerindian or Native American--languages are spoken today.

    http://www.indians.org/welken/americas.htm

    Mar 15 03, 10:56 PM

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