Itâs estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46 languages have just a single speaker! Languages are grouped into families that share a common ancestry.
All U.S. citizens are considered to be U.S. nationals, but not all nationals are citizens: natives of American Samoa and Swainâs Island (AS) are not U.S. citizens but are nationals. Select Eligible noncitizen if you are not a U.S. citizen (or U.S. national) and you are one of the following:
The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.American is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World (also called the Americas)...the republic of Mexico, the Central American republics of Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Leon, and Panama; the Antillian republics of Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Cuba, and the South American republics of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, the Argentine, and Chile.