Indian Language Usage

**Selected Languages Spoken at Home By Persons Aged 5 and Over**
**1990 Census**
`Language`	`Speakers`	`Rank`

`All American Indian languages`	`281,990`

`In Mountain States`	`209,756`

`Algonquian languages`	`12,887`

`Ojibwa`	`4,518`	`9`

`Cheyenne`	`1,570`

`Athapascan-Eyak languages`	`157,694`

`Apache languages`	`12,897`

`Apache`	`11,563`	`3`

`Navajo`	`142,886`	`1`

`Iroquoian languages`	`12,046`

`Mohawk`	`1,504`

`Muskogean languages`	`13,772`

`Choctaw`	`8,147`	`5`

`Muskogee`	`4,706`	`8`

`Penutian languages`	`8,190`

`Zuni`	`6,343`	`6`

`Siouan languages`	`19,683`

`Crow`	`4,143`	`10`

`Dakota`	`13,387`	`2`

`Tanoan languages`	`8,255`

`Kiowa`	`936`

`Tewa`	`3,437`

`Tiwa`	`2,338`

`Towa`	`1,390`

`Uto-Aztecan languages`	`23,493`

`Hopi`	`5,264`	`7`

`Nunic languages`	`6,345`

`Comanche`	`693`

`Paiute`	`1,534`

`Shosoni`	`2,142`

`Ute`	`1,814`

`Pima`	`11,449`	`4`

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Indian Language Usage

Selected Languages Spoken at Home By Persons Aged 5 and Over

1990 Census