[3] The Iroquoian languages dominate the area around the Saint Lawrence River and the eastern Great Lakes, but also include Cherokee.
[6] The Uto-Aztecan languages are found throughout the Western United States, northern and central Mexico, and as far south as El Salvador; they include Hopi, O'odham, and Nahuatl (descended from Aztec).
[10] In the Caribbean, the Arawakan languages were formerly widespread, but are now limited to Garifuna on the Central American mainland; the family is still well represented in South America, however.
[12] The most widely spoken language in North America is English, followed in prevalence by Spanish, and French a distant third place.
These three languages were brought to North America as a result of the colonization of essentially the entire continent by settlers from Europe.
[13] It is also the official language of Dominica and Saint Lucia, where the French-based Antillean Creole is also widely spoken.
[14] French is the dominant language in Quebec and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and is spoken in Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Louisiana.
Russian was once widely spoken in Alaska as it was the language of administration, commerce, and the settlers there that often intermarried with the locals (they numbered no more than a thousand), creating a sizable biracial population.
Other Slavic languages brought to the continent by North American settlers include the Canadian Ukrainian and Texas Silesian dialects.