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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.

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What is the native American word for Mississippi?

Every tribe was different and each had a different term in their own language for the Mississippi.

The Pawnee name was Kickaátit. The Cheyenne called it the "Big Greasy River" (Máʼxe-éʼometaaʼe) which sounds less than attractive. The Arapaho called it Beesniicíe. Among the Ojibwe/Chippewa people different sections of the river have different names - one of these is Gichi-ziibi. The Mohawk name was Yandawezue, meaning great river.

It is alleged that the Choctaws called it Misha sipokni - meaning "beyond age", but this is not confirmed.

Why did the government want the native Americans removed from their land?

It wanted more land for immigrants from Europe, or it wanted the natural resources the land held--everything from trees, oil, and minerals. Most native Americans could not develop those resources.

How many words is there in the American language?

There are 5 vowels and 2 semi-vowels (Y and W).

But there are from 11 to 20 "vowel sounds" in English, made by one or more vowels in various words.

Vowels in the English AlphabetThe 5 traditional vowels are A, E, I, O, and U. However, in English the the letters W and Y can also represent vowel sounds, but they don't always do so. Hence, they may be considered vowels "sometimes".

Examples with Y and W as vowels:

  • In the word "by" [ˈbɑɪ], the Y represents the vowel diphthong [ɑɪ], sometimes called the "Long I" sound.
  • In the word "cow" [ˈkaÊŠ], the W represents the vowel sound [ÊŠ].

Examples where Y and W do not represent vowels:

  • In the word "yet" [jÉ›t], the Y represents the semi-vowel sound [j].
  • In the word "we" [wi:], the W represents the semi-vowel sound [w].
Vowel Sounds in the English LanguageDepending on the accent, the English language can have anywhere from 11 to 20 vowel sounds. As evidenced above, the English alphabet only has 5 letters that are used exclusively to represent vowels.

Using the General American accent as an example, these are some of the vowel sounds that exist, excluding diphthongs:

  • [É‘] - the A in father
  • [æ] - the A in cat
  • [É™] - the A in about
  • [É›] - the E in bet
  • [e] - the A in pay
  • [Éœ]* - the UR in purple or the IRin bird, usually followed by an [ɹ]
  • [i] - the I in machine
  • [ɪ] - the I in big
  • [o] - the O in toe
  • [É”] - the O in cost
  • [u] - the OO in cool
  • [ÊŠ] - the OO in good
  • [ÊŒ] - the U in bug
*R-colored (rhotic) vowels:
  • [ɝ] - the OR in work
  • [Éš] - the ER in butter

What languages are spoken by Natchez Indians?

The Natchez Indians spoke the Natchez language, which is a language isolate, meaning that there were no other closely related languages spoken. The Natchez never called it "Natchez", but rather we:Lhaki:sa or 'the language'.

Native Americans hobbies?

The played a ball game. It was mainy played with the Siox Warriors I OUT G PAin

What languages were spoken by Iroquois Indians?

The people we know today as "The Iroquois" are really six different tribes speaking different languages. Five of these are closely related to each other but certainly not the same: Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca and Cayuga. The sixth tribe, the Tuscarora, are also classed as "Iroquoian" but they originated much further south in North Carolina - they joined the other five tribes in 1722.

So there are really 6 Iroquois languages and also many others classed as Iroquoian.

These are the first five number words to illustrate the point:

English.......................Onondaga........................Seneca.......................Mohawk

one.............................sajadat............................skat............................enska

two.............................tekeni...............................tekni...........................tekeni

three...........................achso................................se-h...........................ahsen

four.............................gajeri................................kei..............................kaie:ri

five..............................wisk..................................wis..............................wisk

Answer

Every nation has its own language. (Don't confuse a nation - an ethnic group - with a state, a governmental territory.) "Iroquois" is a European attempt to represent an Indian word. It refers to both "Iroquoian languages" and a political unit, which its members called the Hodenosaunee, the "League of the Iroquois." This consisted of the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Odonaga, the Cayuga and the Seneca - and later, the Tuscarora. There were Iroquoian groups not in the League, such as the Huron.

How many native Americans are there?

Native America will be less than one hundred people.it is less than one hundred

people because long ...long ago white people kill native America and then they want native America to move to oklahama.when they move there they killed native America again.last president tell the native America that "there are free place to live so now native America live in the middle part of united states.

One way in which the spanish changed native American life was by?

As they gradually took control of territory in South, Central, and North America during the Colonial Period, Spanish colonists tried to change Native American cultures in numerous ways. Primarily, they sought to change the power-structure of these cultures, with Spain becoming the ruling authority. At the same time, they sought to convert the Native culture into a Christian one.

How do you say Please in native American?

There is no such language as "Native American". There are hundreds of different tribes and languages among the different groups of Native Americans. You can read more about them and their languages at the related link.

How did the native Americans help the pilgrams?

They helped them to grow crops in the "New World" and gave them corn and other vegetables to grow and plant.

Does the word Indian as in Native American always need to be capitalized?

That's like asking how come we capitalize the letter "A" in American, or the letter "J" in Jamaican, it's because your calling something/someone by its name so it's appropriate to capitalize it.

What is the native American translation for raven?

American Indian tribes number in the hundreds. Each of those tribes has their own beliefs. The animal world always played an important part in their belief system. The raven played a different role and had a different meaning to each different tribal system.

What is the Cherokee word for duck?

Kawoni (Kah-woe-nee) is for the Month of April and Duck.

Some translations will also use Kawenu (Kah-way-noo).

What does the cheyenne tribe wear?

Cheyenne men of the early 1800s wore tanned leather breechclouts, long at front and back, with thigh-length legging with triangular flaps each side decorated with shells, deer hooves and fringes. The inside face of these flaps was painted red or orange.

No shirts at all were worn before contact with explorers; then they adopted very long shirts of mountain sheep, deer or antelope skins, often painted yellow and heavily fringed.

Women originally wore a simple dress of two skins with removable sleeves. Later they wore two-skin or three-skin dresses typical of all Plains tribes, with animal legs hanging from the sleeves and an unusual amount of fringe. Elk teeth were sewn on in rows, so many that a single dress might weigh 10 or 12 pounds. Dresses were often painted yellow, a favourite colour of the Cheyenne. Leggings were short and decorated with fringes and yellow paint; sometimes they were sewn to the moccasins to form "boots".

After about 1820 hard-soled moccasins were made with or without ankle flaps, often with two tails of leather at the heels.

Robes of tanned deer, elk or buffalo hide were worn in cool weather.

Men wore their hair stiffened and brushed up at the front, or long and loose, or braided on one side, or with a kind of cascade falling to one side of the face. Women wore their hair in two braids doubled up and fastened behind the head or behind each ear, or loose and flowing. No headbands were worn.

A few warriors wore the Sioux-style feather warbonnet, the straight-up warbonnet (like the Blackfoot version) or a headdress of buffalo horns. Some wore the skins of animals wrapped around the head like a turban but most wore no headgear.

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Are native American and north American the same?

No, while many who are Native Americans are, in fact, North Americans, there are very many who are North Americans, but not at all of Native American descent.

What is a native American word for intelligence?

In the Algonkin or Algonquin language the verb "to be intelligent" is nibwaka or kaketawenindam. This and many other related languages use mainly verb forms rather than nouns so there is no exact equivalent of "intelligence".

The Iroquoian languages also use verb forms, such as Cayuga sawayęnhesgǫ = you are intelligent, clever or educated.

Similarly, the Siouan languages prefer to use verb forms rather than nouns. The Lakota word waslolyA means "to be knowledgeable, to know things, to be bright, to be smart, to know people". The verb ksapA means "to be wise, smart or prudent"; the verb iwayupikA means "to be ingenious or clever in doing something".

What are some Native American words for Welcome?

There are many different Native American languages. Here are some example of "welcome":

Aleut = Qaĝaasakung huzuu haqakux̂

Cherokee = ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ (Ulihelisdi)

Chipewyan = Hóʔą Choctaw = Halito

Greenlandic = Tikilluarit

Iñupiaq = Qaimarutin

Inuktitut = ᑐᙵᓱ (Tunngahugit/Tunngasugit)

Lakota = Taŋyáŋ yahí (singular), Taŋyáŋ yahípi (plural)

Mi'kmaq = Weltasualuleg

Nahuatl = Ximopanōltih

Navajo = Yá'át'ééh

Quechua = Haykuykuy

Yucatec Maya = Kíimak 'oolal

What did the crow Indian tribe speak?

Almost no native American tribes had a written language before contact with Europeans; a few developed an invented writing system after exposure to newspapers, books, letters and other documents.

The Crow did not develop their own writing until they were taught to read and write English in schools, notably at the St Xavier Mission which was founded in 1887 near the Bighorn River by Father Pierpaolo Prando, a Jesuit missionary. Then the educated Crow people wrote in the English alphabet.