Scattered Indigenous Language Communities
Latin AmericaCulturalLinguistic geography of South America
natureDistribution of indigenous languages (shaded green) in South America, focusing on the Amazon basin. Languages are primarily spoken in western Brazil, east of the Andes in Venezuela, and in a separate area in northeast Brazil near the Amazon River.
Scattered Indigenous Language Communities | Bolivia, 1825 | Brazil, 1822 | Chile, 1817 | Gran Colombia, 1819–1830 | Mexico, 1821 | Paraguay, 1811 | Peru, 1821 | United Provinces of Central America, 1823–1839 | United Provinces of La Plata, 1816 | Uruguay, 1828 | 51–60 | 41–50 | 31–40 | 21–30 | 11–20 | 6–10 | 2–5 | 1 and below | |
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| 14.4% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 26.0% | 51.9% | 90.2% | 38.7% | 24.3% | 74.9% | 10.3% | 99.7% | 1.85% | 97.4% | ||||||||||
| 98.5% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 33.1% | 16.0% | 2.18% | 2.19% | 5.99% | 13.5% | 3.15% | 2.40% | 3.04% | |||||||||||
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