Most of the other Amerindian languages gradually disappeared as the populations that spoke them were integrated or decimated when the Portuguese-speaking population expanded to most of Brazil.
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After half a century of rural-to-urban migration, in Mexico City and other major cities large districts and sections use both written and spoken Amerindian languages.
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The law also includes other Amerindian languages regardless of origin, that is, it includes the Amerindian languages of other ethnic groups that are non-native to the Mexican national territory.
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The law also includes other Amerindian languages regardless of origin, that is, it includes the Amerindian languages of other ethnic groups that are non-native to the Mexican national territory.
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Twenty-one Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages, Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
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Amerindian peoples of the pampas, such as the Puelche and Nahuatl, Mapudungun was among the few Amerindian languages that expanded in use on the continent after the beginning of European colonization.
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Twenty-one Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages : Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
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As an example, most Spanish priests committed themselves to learn the most important Amerindian languages ( especially during the 16th century ) and wrote grammars so that the missionaries could learn the languages and preach in them.
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Not every language shows this pattern, but almost every Amerindian language family has one or more languages that have it, suggesting that all are derived from an original language in which first and second person pronouns started this way.
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Therefore, the two terms are misnomers inasmuch as they apply only by extension to Chicanos, who may identify primarily as Amerindian or simply Mexican, and they may speak Amerindian languages ( and English ) as well as Spanish.
