The indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, before the arrival of Europeans. Over a thousand of these languages are still used
Yucatec Maya writing in the Dresden Codex, c.11–12th century, Chichen Itza
A Urarina shaman, 1988
Navajo language
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Navajo or Navaho is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the S
Indigenous languages of the Americas
…formal contexts. In the North American Arctic region, Greenland in 2009 elected Kalaallisut as its sole official language. In the United States, the Navajo language is the most spoken Native American language, with more than 200,000 speakers in the Southwestern United States. The US Marine Corps recruited Navajo…
General Clayton Barney Vogel's recommendation letter for Navajo to be used by code talkers during World War II
Navajo code talkers, Saipan, June 1944