When I think about linguistic diversity, places like China and Spain come to mind. Even places likes California in relation to modern day languages like Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tagolog, Vietnamese, and Khmer.

In my Native American pre-contact to 1830 history class, the professor talked about the linguistic diversity of North America and listed some of the linguistic groups on the board.

The languageek in me had to take a picture and share it with you guys, because all of the sudden I am inspired to learn more a out the languages that I’ve never thought about before until today.

Some notes (given to us by the professor): 

• Pocahantas, Squanto, and Tecumseh spoke languages from the Algonquian language family.
• Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse spoke languages from the Siouan language family.
• Siouan and Iroquoian languages are linguistically similar. 
• Uto-Aztecan languages are believed to have come from Mexico.