911: European Languages in the Americas Jun 7, 2017

There are many native languages spoken in the Americas—somewhere around a thousand—though most have a fairly low amount of speakers, and only four are deemed non-endangered depending upon the source. The vast majority of people predominantly use a European language like English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French, along with a plethora of creoles from those languages. Some European language that might be associated less with the Americas than those others mentioned above might be Russian and Danish. Russian is spoken by a small number of people in Alaska who tend to be descendants of those whom originally colonized the region; the dialect uses a lot of archaic Russian vocabulary, so people call it Old Russian, and has various influences from the native Aleut or Yupik. Perhaps fittingly, most of the speakers of Old Russian now are elderly, and there aren't many of them. Danish on the other hand is spoken widely in Greenland, which is still a Danish colony. Nevertheless, the total population of Greenland is only around 56,000, so needless to say, neither Russian nor Danish speaker make up a sizeable amount of the population of the Americas.