What languages are spoken by Pueblo Indians?

Answer 1

The Navajo speak their own language, which called Navajo in English, Dine' bizaad in Navajo. Most also speak English. About 3% of the population of 300,000 speak only Navajo. About 1/3 don't speak any Navajo. The rest are bilingual, some very fluently , some not as good in one or the other language.

Navajo is in the Southern Athabascan language family, part of Athabasacan and the theorized larger Na-Dene' family. It may be related to a Siberian language caled Yenisei.

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Navajo.

Navajo and English.

About 60% of the 300,000 tribal members speak Navajo. Navajo is called Dine' bizaad in the Navajo language. With the coming of cable TV, fewer young people are entering school speaking Navajo well. However, the tribal council meets in Navajo, there is Navajo spoken on the radio station, KTNN, and some Navajo in the Navajo Times. To compete in the Miss Navajo contest one must speak Navajo well.

Answer 2

It can't be said any specific particular language because it is varied as per location.

These are the language is spoken Algonquian, Chinookan, Siouan, Athabascan, Aleut, and Uto-Aztecan but it depends on locations

Answer 3

The Pueblo tribes (plural) spoke numerous different languages. There are four tribes of Eastern Pueblo Indians, the Keres, the Tewa, Tiwa, and Towa, while the Western Pueblos are represented by two tribes, the Hopi,and the Zuni.

Keresan is a unique language unrelated to any other.

Tewa, Tiwa and Towa are dialects of the Tanoan language group.

Hopi is a Shoshonean language, distantly related to Shoshone and Comanche.

Zuni is a Penutian language related to many previously spoken in California.

So although there was only one Pueblo culture, there were seven Pueblo tribes speaking different languages.
The Pueblo people speak a number of languages. Hopi, Zuñi, Keresan is a dialect continuum that is spoken by Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe. The Tanoan gruop is 6 languages: Towa (Jemez), Tewa (San Juan, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque, and Hano); and the 4 Tiwa languages Taos, Picuris, and Southern Tiwa and Piro. Only Piro is extinct.

Pueblo people have also spoken and speak Spanish and English. Also, they sometimes knew other neighboring tribal languages like Ute, Apache, Navajo, Kiowa and Comanche and Plains Sign Language for trading purposes. Taos, for example held a agricultural trade fair that was attended by other people of the Rio Grande valley and Plains tribal people and later French and American trappers.
The Pueblo people did not speak Spanish. They spoke Hopi, Keres, Towa, Tiwa, Tewa, and Zuni. The Puebloans largely predated the Spaniards in North America.
They speak spanish! yay

Answer 4

They spoke the Comanche language, one of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages closely related to Shoshone. Comanche is today close to extinction.

A few words in Comanche are:

• puuku.....................horse
• tsa-wo'ne...............to scratch
• wasape'..................a bear
• pihnaa'...................sugar
• pa-kwabi................to swim
• paa.........................water
• noha.......................nearly
• nai'bi.......................a young woman
• meeku....................now
• kwasu'u..................dress, coat, shirt
• kwasi-naboo'..........snake
• kuyunii'...................turkey

Answer:

The Comanche language is correctly called numu tekwapu(where the u is a vague vowel sound). This is classed as a Uto-Aztecan language, distantly related to Nahuatl (the Aztec language) but definitely not the same; it is much more closely related to Shoshone and Ute.

To illustrate the connections and differences, here are the numeral words in some of those languages:

Number.................Comanche....................Shoshone........................Nahuatl

1............................ sumu.............................semme...........................ce

2............................wahaatu.........................wahatewe.......................ome

3.............................pahiitu............................bahaitee'........................yei

4.............................hayarokweetu.................watsewite'.....................nahui

5.............................mo?obetu.......................managite........................macuilli

6.............................naabaitu.........................naafaite..........................chicuace

7.............................taatsukwitu....................daatsewite......................chicome

8.............................namewatsukwitu............nawiwatsewite................chicuei

9.............................wumhinatu.....................seemonowemihyande.....chicunahui

10...........................suumaru........................seemoote.......................mahtlactli

Answer 5

They had a native language, but did learn Spanish because of the interaction with Spanish settlement.
The Pomo people spoken seven different Pomoan dialects: Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southern Pomo, and Kashaya. The language family is also known as Kulanapan.
they speak hokan
The Pomo people speak seven different Pomoan dialects from a language family called Kulanapan. The seven dialects are Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southern Pomo and Kashaya.

Answer 6

The people we call Cheyenne spoke two closely related languages: Cheyenne and So'taa'e (sometimes written Suhtaio). These were long ago two different tribes who at some point joined together and by the 1800s were living together as one people, but still keeping their own dialects.

Where a Cheyenne said ka'eshkone (a child), a So'taa'e said ka'eone; Cheyenne me'ko (head) was So'taa'e me'o and so on. Many words were identical in both languages.
They spoke two closely related languages (Cheyenne, split into north and south dialects, and Soo'taa'e or Suhtaio); both are members of the very large Algonquian language family which also includes Arapaho, Atsina, Blackfoot and Ojibwa - but only a language expert can show the links between these languages.

The Suhtaio were originally a separate but closely-related tribe who joined the Cheyenne at some time in the distant past, remained with them and yet retained their own language. Their words are very close to Cheyenne proper, but not always identical:

Suhtaio.................Cheyenne.......................English

me'eshevoto.........me'eshkevoto.................baby

ho'ose...................ho'kose...........................coal

me'o......................me'ko..............................head or hair

maxeotse..............maxeste..........................firewood

hotsheehe.............hohkeehe........................mouse

voohe....................vohkoohe.........................rabbit

mo'eha...................mo'keha...........................moccasin

e-e'omo..................e-e'komo.........................it's greasy

Some Cheyenne phrases are:

pave-voona'o (good morning)

ne-toneto-mohta-he? (how are you?)

na-tsheshke'e-tsehese-nestse (I speak Cheyenne a little)

e-peva'e (it's good, it's pretty)

Answer 7

They spoke two closely related languages (Cheyenne, split into north and south dialects, and Soo'taa'e or Suhtaio); both are members of the very large Algonquian language family which also includes Arapaho, Atsina, Blackfoot and Ojibwa - but only a language expert can show the links between these languages.

The Suhtaio were originally a separate but closely-related tribe who joined the Cheyenne at some time in the distant past, remained with them and yet retained their own language. Their words are very close to Cheyenne proper, but not always identical:

Suhtaio.................Cheyenne.......................English

me'eshevoto.........me'eshkevoto.................baby

ho'ose...................ho'kose...........................coal

me'o......................me'ko..............................head or hair

maxeotse..............maxeste..........................firewood

hotsheehe.............hohkeehe........................mouse

voohe....................vohkoohe.........................rabbit

mo'eha...................mo'keha...........................moccasin

e-e'omo..................e-e'komo.........................it's greasy

Answer 8

The Nʉmʉnʉʉ people, better known as Comanches, are a Native American nation from the Great Plains who speak English as their first language.

But the traditional language was Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ, called "the Comanche Language" in English. It is closely related to Shohone, and some linguists consider it a dialect, though some consonant differences prevent mutual intelligibility.

As of 2018, there are less than 90 people who can speak Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ fluently, and only about 20 of them speak it as a first language.

Answer 9

The Pomoan languages are a small family of Native Californian languages spoken by the Pomo people who formerly occupied the valley of the Russian River and the Clear Lake basin.

The pomoan languages are theorized to be part of the Hokan family of languages.

The Pomoan languages are spoken by only a handful of elderly people. Northern Pomo and Northeastern Pomo are without known speakers and presumed to be extinct.

Today the Pomo speak English.

Answer 10

Navajo people speak the following languages:

1. Navajo
   
2. English
   
3. Plains Indian Sign Language (Navajo Sign Language)
   

Navajo, also called Diné bizaad or Naabeehó bizaad, is spoken as a first language by the majority of people (about 170,000 people). About 30,000 people can only speak Navajo.

English is spoken by about 97% of the people. Navajo Sign Language is only spoken by a small community of deaf people, and is endangered.