Aboriginal Languages
of the United States

The Ethnologue, 13th Edition, says:
United States of America. 261,000,000 (1994 US Census Bureau); 1,900,000 American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts, not all speaking indigenous languages.

Also, includes Arabic 3,000,000, Chinese 1,645,000, from the Philippines 1,405,000, South Asians 634,000, speakers of other African, Asian, European, Latin American, and Pacific languages. Approximately 1,000,000 Gypsies use a variety of Romani as first or second language. Christian, secular, Jewish, Muslim. Blind population 500,000. Deaf population nearly 2,000,000.

The number of languages listed for USA is 213. Of those, 176 are living languages, 2 are second languages without mother tongue speakers, and 35 are extinct.

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