United States

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Official Name
United States of America
Population Full

329,065,000 (2019 UNDESA)

Principal Languages
English
Literacy Rate
99% (Roser and Ortiz-Ospina 2018)
International Conventions
ICCPR (1992), UNDRIP (2011)
General References
Bright 1992, Campbell 1997, Campbell and King 2011, Chafe 1962, Chafe 1965, Golla 2007Montgomery-Anderson 2015
Deaf Population
Nearly 2,000,000 (1988)
Recognized Nationalities

The Department of the Interior of the United States government maintains a listing of nearly 600 federally recognized tribes. By virtue of being recognized, they are eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).

Language Counts
The number of established languages listed for United States is 238. Of these, 226 are living and 12 are extinct. Of the living languages, 195 are indigenous and 31 are non-indigenous. Furthermore, 3 are institutional, 16 are developing, 1 is vigorous, 42 are in trouble, and 164 are dying. Also listed are 111 unestablished languages and 2 macrolanguages.