* "Columbus" refers to a specific historical figure, Christopher Columbus. His arrival in the Americas in 1492 was not the beginning of human presence in the Americas.
* There were already many different indigenous cultures and languages in the Americas before Columbus.
To answer your question accurately, you need to be more specific:
* Which indigenous group are you asking about? There were hundreds of different language families and thousands of individual languages spoken across North, Central, and South America.
* What time period are you interested in? Languages evolve over time, so the language spoken before Columbus might be different than the language spoken centuries earlier.
Here are some examples:
* The Aztec people spoke Nahuatl, a language still spoken by some today.
* The Maya spoke various Mayan languages, like Yucatec Maya.
* The Inca spoke Quechua, a language still spoken by millions in South America.
To learn more about the languages spoken in the Americas before Columbus, you can search for information about specific indigenous groups or explore resources on pre-Columbian history and linguistics.