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There are many hundreds of native American languages - thousands if you include Central and South America. Just a few native terms for "baby" or "child" are:
Mapuche: pichiche
Maxakali: kakxop
Xavante: ai'uté
Quechua (Inca): wawacha (or) wawa
Parakan: konomi
Miskito: tuktiki
Maya: al (or) ba'a'al (or) u-ch'ab'
Nahuatl (Aztec): conenetl (or) conetzintli (or) piltontli
Shoshone: ohmaa
Choctaw: vllOsi
Mohawk: owira
Cherokee: usdi
Algonquin: biibiins
Abenaki: chijiz
Maliseet: wasis (or) pileyahsis (or) alohkusis
Mohegan: pahpohs (or) pahpohsak
Naskapi: awaas (or) uschiwaas
Ojibwe: abinoojiins (or) abinoojiiyens (or) biibii (or) boojiinzh (or) oshki-abinoojinh
Powhatan: nechaun
Cree: pêpîsis (or) apiscawâsis (or) awâsis
Blackfoot: issitsimaana (or) maanipokaa
Lakota: hokšicala (or) wakan yeja
Hidatsa: makadista (or) makidaksi
Crow: daaka (or) kaata
Omaha/Ponca: shíⁿgazhíⁿga
Cheyenne: mé'êševotame (or) mé'êševôtse (or) óvohe
Sanish (Arikara): piiraá'u'
Haida: ts'úujuus
Tlingit: t'ukaneyi
Ahtna: sc'enggaay
Gwich'in: bèebii
Han: tr'enin tsul
Kaska: dzedane zuze
Tagish: dunin'
Tanacross: ts'enîin gaay
Tutchone: dunen
Inuit: soruserk (or) utarak
Yupik: anqenkiiyagar
The insulting term "papoose" is used today by a few people for any native American child. Many people also call a baby-carrier or cradleboard a "papoose" - common sense dictates that it can not mean both.
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โ 12y agopapoose and so is the cradle they carried them in.
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