how many aboriginal languages were spoken before white settlement?
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More than 250 Indigenous Australian languages including 800 dialectal varieties were spoken on the continent at the time of European settlement in 1788. Only 13 traditional Indigenous languages are still acquired by children.
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The Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290–363 languages belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. The relationships between these languages are not clear at present.
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Oceania has many indigenous languages, though many have been replaced by English and other European languages. Melanesia and Australia is home to over 5,000 languages alone, with one of the greatest linguistic diversity in the world.
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Early 1800s, traders and trappers came into the area from Canada, Russia, Latin America and the United States. 1811, John Jacob Astor, an American, established the first white settlement in Oregon.
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North American languages include those spoken in Canada and the United States while those of Mexico belong to Meso-America. When the Europeans arrived to North America there were perhaps 300 to 400 languages spoken by several million native people.
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['English - 5,195,196.', 'Spanish and Spanish Creole - 521,751.', 'Chinese Languages (Cantonese, Mandarin, etc;) - 81,650.', 'Vietnamese - 60,094.', 'Russian - 56,537.', 'Tagalog - 54,878.', 'Korean - 48,065.', 'African Languages - 40,932.']
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The six nations that comprise the Haudenosaunee speak Iroquoian languages. The Iroquoian language group comprises over ten languages including Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Tuscarora and Seneca. Cherokee is also an Iroquoian language, though the Cherokee are not part of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
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The three remaining major languages of Subsaharan Africa are Swahili, Lingala, and Zulu. Colonial activity changed much of how the African countries operated economically, socially, and politically. Language is one aspect of culture that indicates a colonial relationship.
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In the 2018 Census, the five most common languages in New Zealand were English, te reo Māori, Samoan, Northern Chinese (including Mandarin), and Hindi.
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At least thirty-five languages indigenous to South Africa are spoken in the Republic, ten of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venḓa, Xhosa, Zulu and Afrikaans.
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['American Indian languages.', 'Athabaskan language family.', 'Cherokee language.', 'Mobilian Jargon.', 'Na-Dené languages.', 'Macro-Algonquian languages.', 'Hokan hypothesis.', 'Penutian languages.']
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More than 70 Aboriginal languages are being spoken across Canada.
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Although the people who settled in Mesopotamia are often credited as the first civilization, new research shows that Aboriginal Australians are the oldest known civilization on Earth. The Aborigines can trace their ancestries back to about 75,000 years ago, but became a distinct genetic group around 50,000 years ago.
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Aboriginal is an all-encompassing term that includes Inuit, First Nations (Indians), and Métis. "First Peoples" is also an all-encompassing term that includes Inuit, First Nations (Indians) and Métis. Aboriginal and First Nations are NOT interchangeable terms. "Aboriginal" and "First Peoples" ARE interchangeable terms.
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Australia was colonised by the British, meaning that the dominant language very quickly became English. As a result of a majority of Australians being descended at least at some point from British settlers (free and convict), English is the major language, and the first language of nearly everyone born in Australia.
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South Africa's Constitution recognises 11 official languages: Sepedi (also known as Sesotho sa Leboa), Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu. For centuries South Africa's official languages were European – Dutch, English, Afrikaans.
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Venda. Venda is generally regarded as a language isolate among S-group languages. While the Nguni group, for example, has four languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele), the Venda group has only one – Venda. ... Another of South Africa's minority languages, it is spoken by 2.4% of South Africans, or 1 209 388 people.