0
Native American Languages
Information and translations for Native American languages. Please note each tribe has its own language, and there is no single "Native American" language.
1,626 Questions
How do you say Hope in Sioux language?
There are many Lakota words translated "refuge" but with different shades of meaning:
- oonakizin is a safe place, a refuge, a place surrounded by hills, a defensive position
- onaphe is a place to hide
- wowinaphe or woinaphe means a defence, a refuge
- oblula is a cosy, sheltered place out of bad weather
- onaphA is the verb meaning "to take refuge in, run to the safety of . ."
How do you say hello in Iroquois Indian language?
I don't know about saying hello, but in all the movies I've seen, especially Peter Pan, people always raise their left arm forming an L and say "How" to make peace with Indians.
===========================================================
Answer: Meanwhile, in the real world outside the movies, there is no such language as "Iroquois" - the Iroquois tribes (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca) each spoke their own language. Holding up your arm and saying "how" to any of these people in the 17th or 18th centuries would get you tortured and killed as an enemy. Anyone who thinks they can learn real history from American movies is extremely foolish.
The Oneida tribe used the greeting she·kú for hello.
In Cayuga you said either sgęnǫ (hello/how are you) or hai (hello).
In Mohawk the word khwe was used for hello or hi.
In Seneca the general term of greeting was niyáwë skênö'.
What created a written Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages. But there is no such language as "Indian".
How do you write your name in Cherokee?
English or Christian names cannot be directly translated to Tsalagi (The Cherokee Language), in some cases you can research your name to its root origins / definitions and then translate that root definition in Tsalagi. For example: If your name's root origin was Mary which is Hebrew for "Bitter" you could then translate that into the Tsalagi word for "Bitter." Please remember though that this is not a 'proper' translation and you would most likely get strange looks trying to use such a translated name.
How do you say owl in the Sioux language?
The Lakota word for an owl in general is hinhan.
A short-eared owl is hinhan gi
A long-eared owl is hinhan kap'ipila
A burrowing owl is hinhan makhotila
A barn owl is hinhan san
A snowy owl is hinhan ska
A great horned owl is hinhan tanka
A screech owl is unhnagichala
What languages were spoken by Sioux Indians?
The Sioux spoke French, English and their Native language which is Sioux ( which was named after them)
they speak sioux, which has 3 dialects- nakota, lakotah, and dakotah.
How do you say arrow in Lakota Sioux language?
You say wismahin, or wansmahior hikheze; a diamond-shaped arrowhead is khehukhu; a barbed head is khesthun.
How do you say beautiful woman in Navajo?
Cheyenne, like most Algonquian languages, has no adjectives in the way that English does. Instead verb forms are used; verb forms make up the major part of the language. You have to use a verb that means literally "she is [being] beautiful" or "she is [being] very beautiful".
she is beautiful..................e-ono'aha (or e-peva-tamaahe)
she is very beautiful..........e-mo'ona-tamaahe
it is beautiful......................e-mo'ona'e
What is the American Indian word for cotton?
There is actually no such language as "Indian". There are more than 450 different languages spoken in India. If you are talking about Native American languages, there are more than 700.
If you would like a translation, you would need to specify which Indian language you are talking about.
What languages are spoken by Chinook Indians?
Today, Chinook people speak English. There are also less than 600 people who speak Chinook Jargon, which is a revived pidgin trade language.
Historically, They spoke a set of languages called The Chinook Languages, which are all extinct.
What does the symbol of a turtle mean?
When I was researching my turtle tattoo idea I found that it represented courage and self-protection. Turtles can protect themselves with their shell, and they carry their home on their back. They only progress in life when they stick their neck out of their shell, are patient with themselves. On a more personal note the shell was symbolical of home, and reminding myself that no matter where I am physically, I can always protect myself, and that home is never too far away.
How do you say Angel in Cherokee language?
A-ni-da-we-hi is how it's pronounced in most dialects (for lack of a better word) of Cherokee. However, I believe the Neches (Roughly, Nay-Cheese) Cherokee pronounce it Ah-dah-we-uh
Information on lotus flower in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages. But there is no such language as "Indian".
How did the Hohokam and Anasazi adapt to their environment?
They developed highly effective techniques of water conservation and dry land farming, if this doesnt work try YAHOO! answers.com. XD
What is the Lakota translation for you are welcome?
That depends on what you mean. If you mean the reply to "thanks", it is to - "you are welcome".
If you mean "you are welcome here" it is hokahe or tanyan yahi.
What does the word Cherokee mean in Creek language?
The name Cherokee is really Tsalagi - colonists were unable to pronounce it properly and so they used Cherokee as a close substitute. Historically there is a lot of debate over what it meant, most popular is that it meant "Tree People" or "People of the tree's." In modern usage Tsalagi means "Real People" which has a very hard to explain cultural distinction behind it.
What is the Sioux word for 'dog'?
There are three dialectes for the people typically referred to as Sioux. Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. There is more than one word for dog. Two terms the Dakota use are cunka or cunkpana. The 'c' sounds like 'ch'.
How do you say thank you in native American?
migwe'c (megwitch)
Thank You
David, member of The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi
In Navajo (Diné bizaad) you say: ahéheeʼ
The mark above the e is a high tone mark, not an accent or stress. The h is said with a harsh breathy exasperated sound.
What is love you in Indian language?
There is actually no such language as "Indian". There are more than 450 different languages spoken in India. If you are talking about Native American languages, there are more than 700.
If you would like a translation, you would need to specify which Indian language you are talking about.
How do you translate from English to native American Cherokee Indian?
Ekwáni or uweyv?i
(v = uh like in huh, ? = glottal stop)
Which Indian tribe created a written language?
One of the first was created by Sequoyah, the leader of the Cherokee nation. It contained 85 characters, representing the syllables of the Cherokee language. It was used as far back as 1828, in the "Cherokee Phoenix," the first newspaper published by what were then called Indians (and today are called Native Americans). The newspaper was bilingual-- English and Cherokee. I enclose a link to some information about it, which includes images of what written Cherokee looked like.
The word Sioux has no meaning in any language - it is a shortened form of the Ojibwe term nadowe-is-iw-ug meaning a "small adder snake" or enemy. This could not be pronounced by French explorers, who only managed "is-iw" which they spelled as Sioux. The Ojibwe were long-term enemies of all the Sioux tribes, so it is not intended as a compliment.
Sioux is not the name of a tribe but a large number of related tribes such as the Oglala, Brule, Hunkpapa, Yankton, Sisseton and many more.
How many languages do native Canadians have?
While most linguists agree on the number of native language families in Canada (12: Algonquian, Athapaskan, Iroquoian, Wakashan, Salishan, Tsimshian, Tlingit, Haidian, Kootenaian, Siouan, Eskaleut, Beothuk), it is far more difficult to put a number on the languages within each of those groups. In fact it is next to impossible.
This is because there is no agreement on what constitutes a separate distinct language and what is simply a dialect of a language. For example, Naskapi is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to Cree - or it is a Cree dialect; there are a very large number of Ojibwe dialects spoken across a vast area around the Great Lakes; the Blackfoot tribes each spoke their own dialect but are often grouped together as a single language; the tribes of the Iroquois League all spoke entirely different languages but many people lump them all together as if they were one.
One recent study puts the total number of native languages in Canada at 65, but if dialects are included the number reaches many hundreds. Another recent study lists just 11 language families and 50 languages - which underlines the difficulties of classification and of pinning down an accurate figure.
Answer:
The Ethnologue Catalog lists these 91 languages for Canada, but this list includes a few languages that are not native, such as English and French:
1. Abnaki, Western
2. Algonquin
3. American Sign Language
4. Assiniboine
5. Atikamekw
6. Babine
7. Beaver
8. Bella Coola
9. Blackfoot
10. Carrier
11. Carrier, Southern
12. Cayuga
13. Chilcotin
14. Chinese, Hakka
15. Chinook Wawa
16. Comox
17. Cree
18. Cree, Moose
19. Cree, Northern East
20. Cree, Plains
21. Cree, Southern East
22. Cree, Swampy
23. Cree, Woods
24. Dakota
25. Dene
26. Dogrib
27. English
28. French
29. German, Pennsylvania
30. Gitxsan
31. Gwich'in
32. Haida
33. Haida, Northern
34. Haida, Southern
35. Haisla
36. Halkomelem
37. Han
38. Heiltsuk
39. Hutterisch
40. Inuktitut
41. Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
42. Inuktitut, North Alaskan
43. Inuktitut, Western Canadian
44. Kaska
45. Kutenai
46. Kwakiutl
47. Lakota
48. Lillooet
49. Malecite-Passamaquoddy
50. Maritime Sign Language
51. Michif
52. Micmac
53. Mohawk
54. Montagnais
55. Munsee
56. Naskapi
57. Nisga'a
58. Nootka
59. Ojibwa
60. Ojibwa, Central
61. Ojibwa, Eastern
62. Ojibwa, Northwestern
63. Ojibwa, Severn
64. Ojibwa, Western
65. Okanagan
66. Oneida
67. Onondaga
68. Ottawa
69. Plautdietsch
70. Potawatomi
71. Quebec Sign Language
72. Salish, Straits
73. Sarsi
74. Sechelt
75. Sekani
76. Seneca
77. Shuswap
78. Slave
79. Slavey, North
80. Slavey, South
81. Squamish
82. Stoney
83. Tagish
84. Tahltan
85. Tanana, Upper
86. Thompson
87. Tlingit
88. Tsimshian
89. Tuscarora
90. Tutchone, Northern
91. Tutchone, Southern
Why were the conquistadors so successful in conquering native Americans?
- Superior technology: professional soldiers armed with cannons, iron swords, armor and horses against foot warriors armed with spears and maces.
- Disease resistance: American natives didn't have resistance to diseases such as smallpox. This was the reason they died by the millions.
