just a thought....
2007-04-11 12:52:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
of AMERICA - it would be english if you are refering to the US of A. remember that America includes Canada and all of Central America and SOuth America...
But hte people who founded the USA spoke english...
2007-04-11 12:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by Sharp Marble 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were and are many NATIVE languages in America spoken by various native tribes long before the English and French arrived.But since then, English has become the official and adopted language with Spanish a strong second.
2007-04-11 12:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by Ted 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Native language of America would the language spoken by the trees, stones, animals, winds, rains, blowing grasses, and waters. The language of the ancestors.
It is the language that is spoken the most,...and is the richest.
You can even hear the language being spoken by the trees and birds that sing, living in the cities made of concrete.
It's a medicine language. People want to hear nature becuase its the language of truth, perhaps a truth they haven't heard in awhile. That's what I beleive.
Most anishnabek,..meaning "the people of all the earth or human kind", have forgotten how to speak with nature and how to listen to it. Forgotten to listen to our ancestors. Nature is the Native language of American but also Europe as well. It is native to the earth.
2007-04-11 15:18:31 · answer #3 · answered by Stony 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English is the "official" language of America, and has been the dominant language since the founding of the country.
There really is no such thing as a "native" language of any country, because language has evolved so much over the centuries - any language/pronunciation of a thousand years ago would seem incomprehensible to any modern speaker of that language.
2007-04-11 12:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by teresathegreat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be two or three hundred or more native languages of America between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. No one language is more "native" than any other. English, Spanish, Portuguese, French etc are all European languages, not American languages. There has also been an influx of Asian languages which, again, are not American.
2007-04-11 12:58:31 · answer #5 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-04-11 13:10:43 · answer #6 · answered by Gardenia 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
None. There were too many Native American tribes with different languages to just come up with one.
Actually, teresathegreat, the United States does not have an official language.
2007-04-11 12:57:28 · answer #7 · answered by Tania La Güera 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were lots of languages spoken by native americans, but american wasn't really a country then, so they're they're probably isn't one specifically.
2007-04-11 12:57:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
English, or Native American...you know, since we did steal their land.
2007-04-11 12:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cherokee
2007-04-11 12:56:24 · answer #10 · answered by LuckyChucky 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋