Wikibooks: WikiLang/North America
WikiLang/Map/North America North America includes six main regions Canada Caribbean Central America Greenland Mexico and United States of America. The main majority languages of this continent are English (mainly USA and Canada) Spanish (Mexico most of Central America and some of Caribbean) and Fren...
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| Summary: | WikiLang/Map/North America North America includes six main regions Canada Caribbean Central America Greenland Mexico and United States of America. The main majority languages of this continent are English (mainly USA and Canada) Spanish (Mexico most of Central America and some of Caribbean) and French (Canada especially Quebec Haiti Guadeloupe). Before colonization from European nations North America was inhabited by several Aboriginal nations speaking a wide variety of languages from several different language families most of them being long forgotten now but a lot are still known by a few and are currently in danger of extinction. In fact only a small number of those Aboriginal languages are not considered endangered. = Canada = See detailed page [[Canada]] WikiLang/Map/Langs N.Amer.png Canada has two official languages English and French. French is the official language in the province of Quebec. The province of New Brunswick has both French and English as official languages. All other provinces have English as official language but French has some legal recognition in Ontario and Manitoba. Knowing the exact number of Aboriginal languages across Canada is almost impossible especially since many Natives speak English or French as a mother tongue and most of them have only a limited passive knowledge of their ancestral languages. The task is even more difficult since the majority of languages has many dialects. Ethnologue lists 63 languages for Canada http //www.ethnologue.org . There are 74 different indigenous languages with their own ISO 639 3 code that have alive speakers in Canada. There are only three indigenous languages of Canada that are not considered threatened or endangered Cree Inuktitut and Ojibwe. = Caribbean = See detailed page [[Caribbean]] = Central America = See detailed page [[Central America]] = Greenland = See detailed page [[Greenland]] = Mexico = See detailed page [[Mexico]] = United States of America = See detailed page [[United States of America]] = References = BookCat |
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