section_path: Demographics/Indigenous languages
section_name: Indigenous languages
paragraph_text: Indigenous languages
  
  A significant number of indigenous languages are spoken in North America, with roughly 6 million in Mexico speaking an indigenous language at home, 372,000 people in the U.S., and about 225,000 in Canada. In the U.S. and Canada, there are approximately 150 surviving indigenous languages of the 300 spoken prior to European contact.