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In general terms only those tribes that had interaction with the American bison (buffalo) had a native word in their own language for that animal; in many cases there were different words for male and female buffalo, for old and young and for different coloured animals.
Here are a few examples:
Blackfoot..........................iinii, stomick (bull)
Cheyenne........................hotova'a (bull), hotoaao'o (female)
Arapaho...........................biis (female), heneecee (bull), nonooni (calf)
Hidatsa............................mite kedapi
Crow................................bishee, tidusup (bull)
Lakota.............................pte (female), tatanka (bull, also elk, bear), ptehinchala (calf), heyuktan (bent horns), ptesan (white buffalo)
Navajo.............................ayani
Pawnee...........................tarha
Arikara (Sanish)...............tanaha'
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∙ 12y agoThere are many hundreds of native languages in the Americas. Just a few words for deer are:
Shawnee............... pis-sick-thee-kie or iti
Abenaki................nolka
Maliseet...............otuhk
Ojibwe..................washkish, waawaashkeshiand many other names
Mohegan..............attuck or noyuhk
Cheyenne.............váótséva
Blackfoot..............áwákaas
Arikara (Sanish)....NAhnunáhtŝ; taakatít; taapáhAt
Cherokee..............v'-s-gi-yi; awi; awini'ta[young deer]
Lakota..................tah'cha
Crow....................uuxa
Hidatsa.................tsitasipisa, tsitataki
Yakima.................ya'mash (mule deer doe) tl'álk (deer or elk)
aníninsh (general term for deer) yukwaasíns (mule deer buck).
Haida...................isdáang
Inca (Quechua)......taruka
Aztec (Nahuatl)......mazatl
Yaqui....................maaso
Hopi.....................sowi'yngwa
Shoshoni...............deheya'
O'odham...............sihki
Cahuilla.................súkat
Tongva..................shukaat
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∙ 12y agoThere are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yupik, Central
- Yupik, Central Siberian
- Yupik, Pacific Gulf
- Yurok
- Zuni
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What is the Spanish word for buffalo or bison?
buffalo = búfalobison = bisonteNote: the American buffalo is more properly called a bison. The same holds true in Spanish; it's more proper to say bisonte when referring to the American species).
Which is another word for bison?
Another word for bison could be buffalo or wisent.
What is another word for bison?
Buffalo
What is a another word for bison?
The bison is also known as the buffalo. A link is posted.
What is the American Indian word for water buffalo?
The water buffalo is not native to the Americas, so no language anywhere in the Americas would have a native name for that animal. Water buffalo are native to the Indian sub-continent and Asia.
What is the native American any dialect or any kind of native American translation for charging bull or strong as bull or just bull or anything like that?
That is a fairly vague and confused question. "Bull" is the English term for a male bovine, also applied to the American bison or buffalo.In Blackfoot the term for a male buffalo is stomick.In Lakota the word for a male buffalo is tabloka or tatanka; you would say tatanka watakpe for "charging bull".
What does the name buffalo mean?
That depends on which "buffalo" you mean.The place-name Buffalo, New York is a native corruption of the French beau fleuve meaning beautiful river.The animal called Bison bison in scientific Latin is generally called buffalo which derives from the French word beouf, meaning beef.The animal called Bubalus bubalis or water buffalo is totally unrelated and its name (buffalo) comes from Latin bubalus, a wild ox.
What in the name of mike are bison?
Another word for bison is buffalo. They are large, brown, wooly, horned mammals that live in the United States.
Were do bison live?
African Cape Buffalo live in Africa. Asian Water Buffalo live in Asia. American bison live in the USA and Canada, in various provincial, state and national parks, as well as on bison ranches. Bison like living in open grasslands and prairies, or open meadows. Wood bison could also live in sparse woods with enough grass for them to graze on for a period of time before they move on again. Cape and Water Buffalo love living in and near water sources.
Do buffalos live in Africa?
It is the buffalo that live on the savanna, such as the African Cape Buffalo, since anyone who thinks of the word "savanna" think African grasslands. Bison live on the Plains of the Prairies, which is in North America, from Texas, USA north to Alberta, Canada.
What is the plural of buffalo?
The word buffalo may be singular or plural. The plural of buffalo, according to several sources, may be buffaloes or remain as buffalo.(The word bison is listed as a plural noun, but is often used as a singular noun.)
What country does the word buffalo come from?
yes Yes There is such thing. they have to popular names, the American Bison or the American Buffalo. They are the largest land mammals and are located between the Great Bear Lakes in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo Lion, and east along the western boundary of the Appalachian Mountains. Due to commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century, the bison nearly went extinct and is today restricted to a few national parks and other reserves.
