American Languages

For American languages see:

  • Indigenous languages of the Americas
  • Languages of North America
  • Languages of South America
  • Languages of the United States

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or languages:

    “The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment ... has no place in the gospel of American progress.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)