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Re:536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (2018) by anonAndOn on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:19PM (#23567516)
It looks like writing developed in present-day Mexico and never made it north of the desert border (Mojave/ Sonoran/ Chihuahua). So NONE of the estimated 296 languages spoken by natives in US and Canada had a written language that we have evidence of. [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Am...

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