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This section includes first names of Native American origin. Native American names may come from any of the hundreds of languages still in use, or the thousands that have gone extinct, representing an astonishing amount of cultural and linguistic diversity across two continents.
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Browse Native American male and female names by alphabetical order to find out the meanings of the names. Click on the first letter of the name you're looking for.
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Native American languages (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by the indigenous peoples who live throughout the Americas and Greenland. There were originally thousands of languages that linguists have attempted to classify into hundreds of language families, including isolates with no known relatives and unattested languages of which no direct record exists.
It is thought that this linguistic diversity originated from migrations from Eurasia of peoples speaking different languages before 12,000 BC. Fewer than 800 languages are still spoken, and although many languages have survived thanks to intensive preservation efforts, most are endangered.
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