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1.Ojibwe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and nearby parts of Mexico by around 43 000 people.
11.Punjabi
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Punjabi is an Indo-European language with 113 million native speakers originating along the Pakistani-Indian border.
12.Sioux
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Sioux is a Siouan language with around 30 000 native speakers mainly in North and South Dakota and surrounding areas.
13.Ho
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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
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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
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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.