piotr wrote:OK, I've studied two languages of Native Americans. Years ago, I studied Quechua (principally Ayacucho Quechua) and I'm currently studying Tikuna/Ticuna. But what is this whole "Team Americas" thing and what are the tasks?
Someone wrote he/she would possibly learn Quechua. I could possibly help with materials or something... But, Quechua is a language family enclosing
at least several mutually unintelligible languages (more or less like Spanish and Romanian) and hundreds of dialects. As there are hundreds of indigenous languages in the Americas (and dozens of families and isolates), what's the probability that two or more group members pick up the same language
Sorry, I hadn't subscribed to this topic so it took me a while to see that you posted.
There are no tasks, this is just a thread to discuss things related to studying indigenous languages of the Americas.
While it is true that there are more indiginous languages than can be counted, a learner isn't equally likely to learn each of the thousands of languages. Learners are most likely to gravitate to languages that are famous and/or have good resources, so you do see a good amount of overlap. People are much more likely to study Navajo, Mohawk, Cherokee, Inuktitut, Cuzco Quechua, Guaraní, Nahuatl, etc. than a random Salishan language from Alaska with 20 speakers and no resources.
I mentioned in the first post that I had studied Navajo and Inuktitut. A couple of regulars have also studied Navajo, and I've even come across one or two people here who have studied Inuktitut. I've also looked into resources for Mohawk, and others here have studied that too.