These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts at Labrador and Newfoundland) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).
The database has an especially large selection of indigenous South American languages and Northeast Caucasian languages.
He soon mastered an indigenous language, and in seven years established six other missions along the Baja California coast.
##Tolerated language – neither promoted nor proscribed; acknowledged but ignored (e.g. Native American languages in the United States)
Public Law 101-477 of 1990 gave historical importance as repudiating past policies of eradicating Indian Languages by declaring as policy that Native Americans were entitled to use their own languages.
The Ganowánian family (Morgan assumed that all the languages of the Americas were related and grouped them under this label); and III.
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reported, everything else (e.g., Enga, Tauya, Lezgian, Kham, Estonian, Livonian, Tibeto-Burman languages, several South American languages)
Nashe if referring to the exotic medicinal plant Guaiacum, the name of which was also "exotic", being the first Native American word imported into the English language.
The language largely consists of elements of French and African languages, with some influence from other sources, notably Native American languages.
Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe.