Most languages are named after their place of origin.
French (français) is so named because it comes from France. French is spoken in some parts of the Western Hemisphere. It is not an American language, because France is in Europe. Yes, it is spoken in parts of North America, western and northern Africa, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. So what? The language comes from France. France is in Europe. French is a European language.
”Spanish” (Castellano) is spoken by far more people in North, Central and South America than it is in Spain. Its origin, however, is in Castilla, which is part of Spain. ”Spanish,” is actually Castilian, since it is not the native language of all of Spain. There is also Euskera, or ”Basque,” Gallego, which is similar to Portuguese, and Català, or ”Catalan,” which is close to medieval French, and is actually older than Castellano, or Castilian. So Castellano, or ”Spanish,” is not an American language. It is a European language.
There are a great many languages that are American languages. Quiichua, Xingu, Nahuatl, Hopi, Navajo, Seminole, Lakota, Ojibwa, Cree, Wampanoag, Tlingit and probably hundreds of others, many now extinct. They DO have their origins in the Western Hemisphere. Some, it could be argued, are East Asian in origin (Tlingit, e.g.), but by and large, they ARE American languages. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb by assuming that Trump speaks no American language.
What Trump DOES speak is a version of the language that evolved in what is now ”England” from the various Germanic (Angols, Saxons, e.g.) and Norman (medieval French) influences, as well as a few leftover Celtic traces. That language now bears the name of its country of origin: ”English.” Due to an aggressive centuries-long colonial period, English is now spoken in countries on six continents of the world, albeit with many regional dialectal variations. But the origin of the language is in England, which is part of Europe.
The next time some Anglo comes up to you and proudly declares that ”I speak American,” unless he is about to demonstrate his fluency in Apache, I tell boors like that, ”No you don’t. You don’t speak a word of American. All you can speak is European, just like most of the rest of us.”
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