A linguistics analysis shows that language arrived in North America in multiple waves from Siberia. The Americas have half of the world’s linguistic diversity, despite a much shorter human history.

Indigenous people entered North America at least four times between 12,000 and 24,000 years ago, bringing their languages with them, a new linguistic model indicates. The model correlates with ...

Humans conclusively did not evolve in North or South America, meaning everyone here arrived from elsewhere. And just as all of the people here must have come from somewhere else, all of the languages ...

Based on the studies available in 1995. Includes inset of Aleutian Islands and index to linguistic units. Includes inset of language areas too small to be labeled on map. "To accompany: Handbook of ...

Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from Central Mexico, are revitalizing their language and culture in their North Carolina community. Students sing a song during their weekly Hñähñu class at ...

Although many hypotheses have been proposed to explain why humans speak so many languages and why languages are unevenly distributed across the globe, the factors that shape geographical patterns of ...

New findings have revealed that five distinct Native American languages were spoken in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts at the time of contact with Europeans, not just one language as ...