North America

=== Languages ===
{{main|Languages of North America}}
[[File:Langs N.Amer.png|thumb|[[First language|Native languages]] of the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Northern Mexico]]
The dominant [[languages in North America]] are English, Spanish, and French. Danish is prevalent in Greenland alongside [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]], and Dutch is spoken side by side local languages in the [[Netherlands Antilles|Dutch Caribbean]]. The term Anglo-America is used to refer to the [[English language|anglophone]] countries of the Americas: namely Canada (where English and French are co-official) and the U.S., but also sometimes Belize and parts of the tropics, especially the [[Commonwealth Caribbean]]. Latin America refers to the other areas of the Americas (generally south of the U.S.) where the [[Romance language]]s, derived from [[Latin language|Latin]], of Spanish and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], (but French-speaking countries are not usually included) predominate: the other republics of Central America (but not always Belize), part of the Caribbean (not the Dutch-, English-, or French-speaking areas), Mexico, and most of South America (except [[Guyana]], [[Suriname]], [[French Guiana]] [France], and the [[Falkland Islands]] [UK]).

The French language has historically played a significant role in North America and now retains a distinctive presence in some regions. Canada is officially bilingual. French is the official language of the province of Quebec, where 95% of the people speak it as either their first or second language, and it is co-official with English in the province of [[New Brunswick]]. Other French-speaking locales include the province of [[Ontario]] (the official language is English, but there are an estimated 600,000 Franco-Ontarians), the province of [[Manitoba]] (co-official as ''[[de jure]]'' with English), the [[French West Indies]] and [[Saint-Pierre et Miquelon]], as well as the U.S. state of Louisiana, where French is also an official language. Haiti is included with this group based on historical association but Haitians speak both [[Haitian Creole language|Creole]] and French. Similarly, French and French Antillean Creole is spoken in Saint Lucia and the [[Commonwealth of Dominica]] alongside English.

A significant number of [[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Indigenous languages]] are spoken in North America, with 372,000 people in the U.S. speaking an indigenous language at home,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Census Shows Native Languages Count|url=https://www.languagemagazine.com/census-shows-native-languages-count/|access-date=16 August 2020|website=Language Magazine|language=en-US|archive-date=10 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810115520/https://www.languagemagazine.com/census-shows-native-languages-count/|url-status=live}}</ref> about 225,000 in Canada<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/abpopprof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Data=Count&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&B1=Language&C1=All&SEX_ID=1&AGE_ID=1&RESGEO_ID=1 | title = Aboriginal Population Profile, 2016 | date = 21 June 2018 | publisher = Statistics Canada | access-date = 16 August 2020 | archive-date = 19 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201119101441/https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/abpopprof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Data=Count&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&B1=Language&C1=All&SEX_ID=1&AGE_ID=1&RESGEO_ID=1 | url-status = live }}</ref> and roughly 6 million in Mexico.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cocking|first=Lauren|title=A Guide To Mexico's Indigenous Languages|url=https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/a-guide-to-mexicos-indigenous-languages/|access-date=16 August 2020|website=Culture Trip|date=23 December 2016|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924142928/https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/a-guide-to-mexicos-indigenous-languages/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the U.S. and Canada, there are approximately 150 surviving indigenous languages of the 300 spoken prior to European contact.<ref>{{Cite web|title=North American Indian languages|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/North-American-Indian-languages|access-date=16 August 2020|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111195401/https://www.britannica.com/topic/North-American-Indian-languages|url-status=live}}</ref>