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Indian language ... or Indian language

Do you know whether the following language are native to North America or South Asia?
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Last updated: May 10, 2023
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1. Ojibwe
North America
South Asia
It is an Algic (Algonquian) language spoken natively by around 50 000 people in the Great Lakes region of Canada and USA. It's the second largest indigenous language in Canada after Cree.
2. Odia
North America
South Asia
Odia is spoken by around 35 million people in the state of Odisha, India where it is the official language. It belongs to the Indo-European family.
3. Meitei
North America
South Asia
Meitei is spoken in the Indian state of Manipur and is as such sometimes called Manipuri. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family and has around 1,8 million speakers.
4. O'odham
North America
South Asia
O'odham is a Uto-Aztecan language native to Arizona and northern Sonora, with around 15 000 native speakers. Arizona is named after the O'odham word for "small spring".
5. Kannada
North America
South Asia
Kannada is a Dravidian language with around 43,7 million speakers and is spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka. The similarity between Canada and Kannada is purely coincidental.
6. Hindi
North America
South Asia
Hindi is an Indo-European language with 322 million native speakers,making it one of the largest languages worldwide. It's spoken primarily in northern India but official nationwide. Urdu is mutually intelligible to the point of being considered the same language in spite of being written with a different script.
7. Haida
North America
South Asia
Haida is an isolate spoken on a few islands of Canada's and Alaska's pacific coast. It may have as few as 24 native speakers remaining, though more speak it as a second language.
8. Mam
North America
South Asia
Mam is a Mayan language with about 610 000 native speakers, spoken primarily in Guatemala and the Mexican states of Campeche and Chiapas.
9. Maithili
North America
South Asia
Maithili has 34 million speakers and is official in two Nepalese provinces as well as Jharkhand, India. It belongs to the large Indo-European family.
10. Chuj
North America
South Asia
A Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and nearby parts of Mexico by around 43 000 people.
11. Punjabi
North America
South Asia
Punjabi is an Indo-European language with 113 million native speakers originating along the Pakistani-Indian border.
12. Sioux
North America
South Asia
Sioux is a Siouan language with around 30 000 native speakers mainly in North and South Dakota and surrounding areas.
13. Ho
North America
South Asia
Ho is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken as a minority language in northeastern India by just over a million people, including the Ho (yes, really) and Munda tribes..
14. Navajo
North America
South Asia
Navajo is a Na-Dené language with around 170 000 native speakers, making it the largest language native to USA. It's spoken primarily in the Four Corners states.
15. Sanskrit
North America
South Asia
Sanskrit is an Indo-European language with no known native speakers since the 14th century. It is considered the holy language of Hinduism and has a vast literary tradition, in many ways being the Indian equivalent to Latin.
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