Editing Languages of the United States (section)

====Other Native American languages====
[[Dakota language|Dakota]] is a [[Siouan languages|Siouan language]] with 18,000 speakers in the US alone (22,000 including speakers in Canada), not counting 6,000 speakers of the closely related [[Lakota language|Lakota]]. Most speakers live in the states of [[North Dakota]] and [[South Dakota]]. Other Siouan languages include the closely related [[Winnebago language|Winnebago]], and the more distant [[Crow language|Crow]], among others.

[[Yupik languages|Central Alaskan Yup'ik]] is an [[Eskimo–Aleut languages|Eskimo–Aleut language]] with 16,000 speakers, most of whom live in Alaska. The term "Yupik" is applied to its relatives, which are not necessarily mutually intelligible with Central Alaskan, including [[Naukan Yupik language|Naukan]] and [[Central Siberian Yupik language|Central Siberian]], among others.

The [[O'odham language]], spoken by the [[Pima people|Pima]] and the [[Tohono O'odham]], is a [[Uto-Aztecan languages|Uto-Aztecan language]] with more than 12,000 speakers, most of whom live in central and southern [[Arizona]] and northern [[Sonora]]. Other Uto-Aztecan languages include [[Hopi language|Hopi]], [[Shoshoni language|Shoshone]], and the [[Colorado River Numic language|Pai-Ute]] languages.

[[Choctaw language|Choctaw]] has 11,000 speakers. Choctaw is part of the [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean family]], like [[Muscogee language|Seminole]] and [[Alabama language|Alabama]].

The [[Algic languages|Algonquian language family]] includes languages like [[Ojibwe language|Chippewa/Ojibwe]], [[Cheyenne language|Cheyenne]], and [[Cree language|Cree]].

[[Keresan languages|Keres]] has 11,000 speakers in New Mexico and is a [[language isolate]]. The Keres pueblo people are the largest of the Pueblo nations. The Keres pueblo of [[Acoma Pueblo|Acoma]] is the oldest continually inhabited community in the United States. [[Zuni language|Zuni]], another isolate, has around 10,000 speakers, most of whom reside within the [[Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico|Zuni pueblo]].

Because of immigration from [[Mexico]], there are Mexican native American languages speakers in the US. There are thousands of [[Nahuatl language in the United States|Nahuatl]], [[Mixtec language|Mixtec]], [[Zapotec language|Zapotec]] and [[Trique languages|Trique]] speakers in communities established mainly in the southern states.

Although the languages of the Americas have a history stretching back about 17,000 to 12,000 years, current knowledge of them is limited. There are doubtlessly a number of undocumented languages that were once spoken in the United States that are missing from historical record.