History of American Language
This is my essay about the history of American language . You will see how the Americans were formerly Indian tribes, not the Whites like we can find now. THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LANGUAGE If we look back to the time before European colonization, there were perhaps a thousand languages spoken in America. Before the arrival of Europeans which bring English and Spanish languages to America, there were about 250 Indian languages in the present territory of the United States alone. Sure these languages showed tremendous variety between one another. Because of European colonization, the population of native civilizations of the current territory of the United States fell from about 20 million to the present level of less than 2 million. Beyond the shrinking size of the ethnic populations, the languages have also suffered due to the prevalence of English among those of Native American ancestry. Most Native American lan...