What is America's original language?

Question

i know most people speak English now, but before the English explorers found America and introduced the language what did the people speak?

sorry but my American history is a bit well non-existent!

thanx for the info!!

Answer 1

About 7000 diffrent ones ours was Lakota

Answer 2

When you say America, you should include both North and South America.  Many different people of many cultures occupied those two continents.  They spoke different languages--just as in Europe, there are many countries with many cultures and languages.  

Answer 3

~Before the Asians discovered America, the "common language" would have been a dinosaurial grunt or, much later, a quadripedal mammal's growl.   Once the Asians came over and started to disperse, essentially five 'Indian' language groups developed:  The Iroquoian, the Siouan-Yuchi, the Athapascan, the Salician and the Algonquin.  All North American Indian languages (except sign) are based on one of these five language groups.  Once the Europeans arrived, French predominated in the north and west, Dutch around New York, Spanish in the South, around Florida, the Gulf Coast and the Southwest.  English kind of filled in the Middle Atlantic and Inuit/Aleut  predominated in the Arctic.

Answer 4

There was not just one language, Indian tribes spoke different languages.

Answer 5

There wasn't one common language.  The Native Americans spoke different languages.  This includes North, Central and South America as well as the islands in the Caribbean which all had native populations.  Here is a source with info: http://www.native-languages.org/

Answer 6

there wer over 500 differt indian languages spooken be for the invading europeans came before 1492. but may be chinese , read the book "1421"