Category:Indigenous languages of the Americas

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For more information, see the article about [[{{{1|Indigenous languages of the Americas}}}]].

Many of the subcategories group these languages into geographic culture areas.

Languages that are within the same culture area are not necessarily related genetically (e.g. Chiricahua Apache is a language of the Southwest but it is not related to Hopi, another language of the Southwest. However, Chiricahua is related to Dena’ina, a language of the Subarctic spoken in Alaska).

Contents 1 South America 2 Central America 3 North America 4 See also

South America

For South America, the subcategories follow Terrence Kaufman's "geolinguistic regions":

• Northwest (includes parts of Central America)
• Western Amazonia (Kaufman actually has 2 regions here: Western Amazonia I & II)
• Northern Foothills
• Andes
• Southern Foothills
• The Cone
• The Chaco
• Eastern Brazil
• Northeastern Brazil
• Central Amazonia
• Northern Amazonia

Central America

Central America is mostly Mesoamerica. However, parts of Central America are under the North American Southwest and the South American Northwest.

North America

The culture areas for North America follow the general received consensus:

• Arctic
• Subarctic
• Northwest Coast
• Plateau
• Great Basin
• California
• Southwest (includes some parts of Mexico)
• Plains (sometimes divided into Plains and Prairie regions)
• Southeast
• Northeastern Woodlands

See also

• Category:Languages of North America
• Category:Languages of South America

Articles in category "Indigenous languages of the Americas"

There are 10 articles in this category.

* Indigenous languages of the Americas A List of Native American languages in Argentina C Chinook Jargon

C cont. Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas H Hokan languages J Je-Tupi-Carib

L List of English words of Native American origin P Penutian languages W Wetiko