Just as Latin America, North America is characterized by a great linguistic diversity, with nearly 30 language families.
This richness is also among the most threatened in the world. Scientists believe indeed that 90% of these languages may disappear during this century. Many are already extinct without having ever been studied.
The situation is comparable to the one in Australia, where 90% of Aboriginal languages could also disappear in the next decades. In both places, native languages experience the same difficulty: they struggle to exist against English supremacy.
 

• Algic (or Algonquian) Languages
• Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit Languages
• Caddoan Languages
• Chimakuan Languages
• Chinookan Languages
• Iroquoian Languages
• Kiowa-Tanoan Languages
• Maidu Languages
• Mayan Languages
• Mixe-Zoquean languages
• Muskogean Languages
• Palaihnihan Languages/a>
• Oto-Manguean language family
• Pomoan (or Kulanapan) Languages
• Sahaptian Languages
• Salishan Languages
• Siouan Languages
• Tequistlatecan languages
• Totonacan languages
• Tsimshian Languages
• Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) Languages
• Uto-Aztecan languages
• Wintuan Languages
• Yokutsan (Yokuts) Languages
• Inuit-Yupik-Aleut Languages
• Wakashan Languages
• Yuman-Cochimi Languages
• English-based Creole languages
• French-based Creole languages

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• Language isolates and non-classified languages

 
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