Category talk:Amerindian languages

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Move to Category:Native languages of the Americas, and remove any language family subcategories. Right now it is presented as a language family, which it clearly is not. Nadando 06:13, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

In light of Category:Languages of the Americas, do we even need this for anything? -- Liliana • 06:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Category:Languages of the Americas seems to be for all languages currently spoken in the Americas, whether they developed there or not. We would need to decide whether or not a native vs non-native language distinction for geographic categories is warranted here. (or anywhere- Category:Native languages of Europe?). Nadando 06:21, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Category:Australian Aboriginal languages passed RFD a while ago, though that's not saying much. -- Liliana • 06:29, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

What makes you say that it is "presented as a language family"? I don't see any evidence for that. --EncycloPetey 19:51, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

There are several codes in ISO 639-5 that are not for families but for groups of unrelated languages. There are {{etyl:aus}} for Australian Aboriginal languages, {{etyl:nai}} and {{etyl:sai}} for North and South American Indian languages, and {{etyl:cau}} for languages of the Caucasus. We shouldn't really have these codes at all because they are not very specific. —CodeCat 14:07, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

This should really be moved to RFDO. -- Liliana • 09:13, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

The term Amerindian properly excludes Eskimo-Aleut languages and Michif. Indigenous, Aboriginal, or native would be more correct.

Would Canadian English, African American Vernacular English, Michif, joual, ASL be considered native languages of the Americas? —Michael Z. 2012-01-27 22:21 z