Tag for indigenous American languages?

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I'd like to create a tag for the indigenous pre-Columbian languages of the Americas and their descendants. I don't quite know what to call it:

Please let me know what you think would maximize correctness and minimize confusion and disrespect.

@Alenanno For tagging purposes I don't think that distinction is necessary. It's not really confusing or ambiguous. When we get more than a couple questions in the area maybe we can do that. — Mark Beadles, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:19
Don't forget Central! There's seven linguistically diverse countries that are niether North nor South: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Misumalpan is one language family that seems to be entirely within Central America only for instance. — hippietrail, Aug 31, 2012 at 14:47
The broadest label with its own page on Wikipedia seems to be: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas — hippietrail, Aug 31, 2012 at 14:50
@hippietrail Yes, that's why I asked - that label is too long for a tag. — Mark Beadles, Aug 31, 2012 at 15:00
@MarkBeadles: I agree. I was going to suggest "mesoamerican languages" but that turned out not to cover South America. Since we're "experts" here I think we don't have to worry too much about "american languages" being taken the wrong way. — hippietrail, Aug 31, 2012 at 17:18

Alenanno · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-02 14:43:02Z

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@hippietrail added american-languages which works for me.

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