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'''Amerind''' may refer to:
* The word Amerind (a contraction of "American Indian") usually refers to the [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]], the peoples who lived in the [[Americas]] before the Europeans arrived in the continent; and to the modern ethnic communities that originate from those peoples.
* The [[Amerind Foundation]], a non-profit, privately funded museum and archaeological research facility, established in 1937.
* The word was also used in 1987 by linguist [[Joseph Greenberg]] for the [[Amerind languages]], one of three proposed linguistic families in which he classified all Native American languages (the other two being [[Na-Dené languages|Na-Dené]] and [[Eskimo-Aleut languages|Eskimo-Aleut]]).
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