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There have been many thousands of native languages in the Americas, each with a different word for "family". Just a very few examples from North America are:

Natick................................weechinnineummoncheg (his family)

Menominee.......................tepe:naw

Algonkin/Algonquin...........-ote or -kamik (in compounds), or ijinowin

Cayuga..............................gahwajiyade (matrilneal family)

Oneida...............................kahwa·tsíleˀ

Lakota...............................tiwahe (immediate family), tiyoshpaye (extended family)

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