Country
Languages of United States
The Linguasphere Register records 38 entries for United States, spread across 6 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.
38Register entries
6Sectors present
26Zones
5Language entries
2= AUSTRALASIA 3= AUSTRONESIAN 4= EURASIA 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 6= NORTH-AMERICA 7= SINO-INDIAN
Register entries recorded in United States
| Code | Entry | Level | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
27= | BISMARCK-SEA | Zone | Covers the "East New-Guinea + Solomons" reference area, within the wider reference area of the "Papuan" hypotheses. |
39= | TRANSPACIFIC | Zone | |
40= | EUSKARIC | Zone | Covers "Basque" or "Euskarian" isolated set. |
41-B | MAGYAR + KHANTY | Set | UGRIC, "ugrian", part of "finno-ugric", in French: ougrien. |
41= | URALIC | Zone | Covers the "Uralic" grouping, including the narrower "Finno-Ugric" grouping (41-A & 41-B). |
45= | EAST-EURASIA | Zone | Covers the "East-Asia" reference area, composed of sets not covered in any phylozone, part of the "wider Altaic … |
46= | SOUTH-EURASIA | Zone | |
48= | MON-KHMERIC | Zone | |
50= | CELTIC | Zone | Covers the "Celtic", "Gaelic + Welsh" or Gaeilge + Cymraeg set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
51-AAA-bkg | chicano-tampa | Variety | Tampa |
51= | ROMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
52-A | NORSK + FRYSK | Set | GERMANIC,. |
52-AAA-cd | norsk-F | Inner | "standardised urban norwegian", dansk-norsk, "formal dano-norwegian". transition to [52] Nynorsk (New Norwegian). |
52-AC | FRYSK + DEUTSCH | Chain | CONTINENTAL-WEST-GERMANIC, "frisian" + "teutonic". for note on the term "teutonic" see [52] Deutsch + Nederlands below. … |
52-ACB | DEUTSCH + NEDERLANDS | Net | GERMAN + DUTCH, deutsch + "dutch", ’teutonic’. The modern spoken and recorded idioms of this net are classified below … |
52= | GERMANIC | Zone | Covers the "Germanic" or Norsk + Frysk set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
53= | SLAVIC | Zone | Covers the "Slavonic" or Slovenčina + Slovensko set, part of the "Balto-Slavic" grouping within the "Indo-European … |
55= | ALBANIC | Zone | Covers the "Albanian" or Shqip set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
56= | HELLENIC | Zone | Covers the "Greek", "Hellenic" or Helleniki + Tsakonia set of languages, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental … |
57= | ARMENIC | Zone | Covers the "Armenian" or Hayeren set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity. |
59= | INDIC | Zone | Covers the "Indic", "Indo-Aryan" or Hindi + Domari set of languages, part of the "Indo-Iranian" grouping within the … |
60= | ARCTIC | Zone | Covers the "West Arctic", Inuit+Aleut ("Eskimo"+Aleut) or Attu + Kalaallisut set. |
61-BAE-bbb | gwich'in-SW | Variety | Fort Yukon… Venetie |
61= | NADENIC | Zone | Covers the "Nadene" grouping (part of a "wider Na-Dene" hypothesis, with [66] Haida). |
62= | ALGIC | Zone | Covers the "Algic" or "Algonkian + Ritwan" grouping. |
63-AAA-da | seneca | Inner | Tonawanda, Cattaraugus & Allegheny reservations… Six Nations reserve |
63-AAA-db | cayuga | Inner | Cattaraugus reservation… Six Nations reserve |
63-AAA-dc | onondaga | Inner | originally near Syracuse (NY), moved partly to Six Nations reserve |
63-AAA-eb | tuscarora | Inner | Tuscarora reservation (NY)… Six Nations reserve |
63= | IROQUOIC | Zone | |
64= | MISSISSIPPI | Zone | |
65-AAC-bcb | 'fish-lake'-ute | Variety | |
65= | AZTECIC | Zone | Covers the "Uto-Aztecan", Ute + Nahuatl set of languages. |
66= | WEST-COAST | Zone | Covers the "Far-West American" reference area. |
67= | PUEBLO-DESERT | Zone | |
68= | EAST-COAST | Zone | |
69= | MESO-AMERICA | Zone | Covers the "Meso-America" reference area. |
79= | SINITIC | Zone | Covers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity. |
Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.