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Náhuatl
Nāhuatlahtōlli
A Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Nahua peoples. The language of the Mexica empire, with a rich written tradition.
Otomí (Hñähñu)
Hñähñu
A tonal Otomanguean language spoken in central Mexico. Its endonym, Hñähñu, means 'those who speak Otomí'.
Purépecha (P'urhépecha)
P'urhépecha
A language isolate with no proven relationship to other languages, spoken in the Tarascan highlands of Michoacán.
Maya yucateco
Maaya tʼaan
A Mayan language spoken across the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize; a direct heir to the written tradition of the ancient Maya.
Mixteco
Tuʼun savi
A cluster of Otomanguean varieties of the Mixteca region; its endonym means ‘the word of the rain’.
Zapoteco
Diidxazá
A family of Otomanguean languages of Oaxaca, with a long Zapotec epigraphic tradition.
Tseltal
Batsʼil kʼop
A Mayan language of the Chiapas highlands, closely related to Tsotsil.
Tsotsil
Batsʼi kʼop
A Mayan language of Chiapas; its endonym means ‘true language’.
Kʼicheʼ
Kʼicheʼ
The most widely spoken Mayan language in Guatemala; the language of the Popol Vuh.
Qʼeqchiʼ
Qʼeqchiʼ
A Mayan language expanding across northern Guatemala and southern Belize.
Quechua
Runa Simi
A family of Andean languages, the language of the Inca empire; the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas.
Aymara
Aymar aru
An Andean language of the Lake Titicaca highlands, co-official in Bolivia and Peru.
Guaraní
Avañeʼẽ
A Tupí-Guaraní language co-official in Paraguay, where most of the population speaks it.
Mapudungun
Mapudungun
The language of the Mapuche people; its name means ‘the speech of the land’.
Cree de las llanuras
Nēhiyawēwin
An Algonquian language of the Canadian prairies, written in its distinctive syllabics.
Inuktitut
ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ
An Inuit language of the Canadian Arctic, co-official in Nunavut; uses Inuktitut syllabics.
Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin)
Anishinaabemowin
An Algonquian language of the Great Lakes region, spoken in Canada and the United States.
Navajo
Diné bizaad
A Na-Dené language of the U.S. Southwest; the most widely spoken Native language in the United States.
Cherokee
ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi)
An Iroquoian language written with the syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the 19th century.
Lakota
Lakȟótiyapi
A Siouan language of the northern plains, spoken by the Lakota (Teton) people.
