Editing North America (section)

=== Languages ===
[[File:Chinatown 1.jpg|thumb|[[Chinatowns in Queens|Chinatown, Flushing]] in [[Queens]], [[New York City]] has become the present-day global epicenter receiving [[Chinese emigration|Chinese immigration]] as well as the international control center directing such migration, as numerous languages have become entrenched into North American society.<ref name="NYC800Languages">{{cite news |title=Linguistics – Say what? |url=http://www.economist.com/node/21528592 |access-date=30 August 2024 |publisher=The Economist}}</ref><ref name="NYCPrimaryChineseDestination">{{cite news |author=Sullivan |first=Eileen |date=24 November 2023 |title=Growing Numbers of Chinese Migrants Are Crossing the Southern Border |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/us/politics/china-migrants-us-border.html |access-date=24 November 2023 |newspaper=The New York Times |quote=Most who have come to the United States in the past year were middle-class adults who have headed to New York after being released from custody. New York has been a prime destination for migrants from other nations as well, particularly Venezuelans, who rely on the city’s resources, including its shelters. But few of the Chinese migrants are staying in the shelters. Instead, they are going where Chinese citizens have gone for generations: Flushing, Queens. Or to some, the Chinese Manhattan...“New York is a self-sufficient Chinese immigrants community,” said the Rev. Mike Chan, the executive director of the Chinese Christian Herald Crusade, a faith-based group in the neighborhood.}}</ref>]]
{{main|Languages of North America}}
The dominant languages in North America are English, Spanish, and French. Danish is prevalent in Greenland alongside [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]], and Dutch is spoken side by side local languages in the [[Netherlands Antilles|Dutch Caribbean]]. The term Anglo-America is used to refer to the [[English language|anglophone]] countries of the Americas: namely Canada (where English and French are co-official) and the U.S., but also sometimes Belize and parts of the tropics, especially the [[Commonwealth Caribbean]]. Latin America refers to the other areas of the Americas (generally south of the U.S.) where the [[Romance language]]s, derived from [[Latin language|Latin]], of Spanish and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], (but French-speaking countries are not usually included) predominate: the other republics of Central America (but not always Belize), part of the Caribbean (not the Dutch-, English-, or French-speaking areas), Mexico, and most of South America (except [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], [[French Guiana]] [France], and the [[Falkland Islands]] [UK]).

The U.S. has an [[ethnically diverse]] population, and 37 ancestry groups have more than one million members.<ref name="An2000">{{cite web |title=Ancestry 2000 |url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf |date=June 2004 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url-status=live |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20041204015245/https://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf |archive-date=4 December 2004 |access-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> The French language has historically played a significant role in North America and now retains a distinctive presence in some regions. Canada is officially bilingual. French is the official language of the province of [[Quebec]], where 95% of the people speak it as either their first or second language, and it is co-official with English in the province of [[New Brunswick]]. Other French-speaking locales include the province of [[Ontario]] (the official language is English, but there are an estimated 600,000 Franco-Ontarians), the province of [[Manitoba]] (co-official as ''[[de jure]]'' with English), the [[French West Indies]] and [[Saint-Pierre et Miquelon]], as well as the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]], where French is also an official language. Haiti is included with this group based on historical association but Haitians speak both [[Haitian Creole language|Creole]] and French. Similarly, French and French Antillean Creole is spoken in Saint Lucia and the [[Commonwealth of Dominica]] alongside English.