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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.
1,626 Questions
What is the native American word for soul?
There 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
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the Native American word for desert?
k'é can mean peace or also relationships, so to restore or return to peace is:
" k'énáhádleeh "
Another way is:
hoozhǫǫh-- to become peaceful.
hoozhǫ́ǫgo--peacefully
hózhǫ́ náhásdlį́į́ʼ-- peace and beauty and order, harmony have been restored. (often heard in ritual prayers)
These words are related to the important concept: hózhǫ́ or Bik'eh Hózhóón which means a concept of: beauty and harmony, peace, balance, happiness and contentment, wholeness, and goodness.
Another way:
t'áá hasht'e hodít'é-- peaceful
Note: marks over vowels mean high tone, not accent or stress. They change meaning.
The mark under vowels make them nasalized.
The consonants k' and t' are glottalized consonants.
zh is like the sound in pleasure.
two vowels mostly make it held for a longer time. Except i which changes from like in "bit" to like in "bee"
What is the Native American word for moon?
There are many different Native American languages, so there are many words for many moons. Here are a few:
In Tsalagi (Cherokee): utsuti svnoyiehinvdo
In Creek: sulke hvresse
In Navaho: dikwii tleehonaaei
In Lakota:
How do you say 'I Love You' in ANY Native American language?
"I Love You" in Different Native American Languages HERE ARE JUST A FEW
Cherokee: tsinehi and gvgeyuhi
Hopi : Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Mohawk : Konoronhkwa
Navajo : ayóó Ánííníshní
Sioux : Techihhila
Cheyenne: Neme'hot'tse
What is the Lakota translation for beaver?
An interesting and far from simple question. The name sasquatch derives straight from Salish sésquac, meaning "a wild man" (it does not mean "big foot"); since it is apparently mainly confined to the north-west coast the Lakota do not appear to have any similar term for an unknown creature. Bigfoot sightings in the Lakota area can be counted on the fingers of one foot (!).
The insulting Lakota term wichashashni means "not human, deceitful", but this is used about humans, not mythical beasts. The Lakota term glugluka may best translate "wild man" but again it refers to humans (who are out of control).
What is the Native American word for the color black?
There is no "Native American" language. There are hundreds of languages in dozens of languages families. Many are as different as English, Russian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hakka and Turkish. Horse is all these languages is no more than 500 years old. Many used words related to the word for dog in their language.
In one language in the American southwest, Navajo, a language in the Southern Athabascan family, red horse is:
łį́į́ʼ łichííʼ
The first word means horse and the second means "it is red"
This is a very hard set of words for most English speakers. The L with a line through it is a sound that is similar to one in Welsh. It is a aspirated unvoiced L. The marks under the Is make them nasal as though there was a N at the end. The marks over make them high tone. Two vowels together mean you hold the sound longer.
What is the Apach translation for the bird Hawk?
There are several different languages and dialects in the Apache group of languages:
One word for wolf is ban-chu.
In Jicarilla it is baietso.
What is the Native American word for eye?
There is no Native American language...There are hundreds of native American languages.
In the Paiute language: eye = booee
AnswerThere is no Native American language...There are hundreds of native American languages.In the Paiute language: eye = booee
AnswerThere is no Native American language...There are hundreds of native American languages.In the Paiute language: eye = booee
How do you say dances with wolves in Sioux language?
Šuŋgmanitu-tȟáŋka awáčhi
it means to dance around a wolf in honor but english… dances with wolves
How do you say wolf in the Sioux language?
Sumanitu Taka
It depends upon which tribe. The Sioux tribes each spoke a variation of the Siouan language.
Shungkmanitutonka is the Lakota word for wolf.
In Lakota it is Å¡ung'manitu tanka [you say shoonk.manee.too.tonka]. The literal meaning is "a big dog that hunts walking".
What is the Native American word for no fear?
There 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
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the native American word for chocolate?
There is actually no such language as "Native American". There 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
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the Algonquin word for windy?
There is a popular legend circulating on the internet about the origin of the name Moose Hill, Massachusetts - that it may derive from the supposed "Algonguin" term moosiap, alleged to mean a windy place. This legend is unlikely to contain even a grain of truth. For one thing, the Algonquin or Algonkin are a Canadian tribe who have never lived in Massachusetts.
There are various terms in the many AlgonquiAn languages for [it is] windy:
Mahican..................sâxen or kshaxen
Ojibwe....................noonin
Algonkin..................nonin
Shawnee.................mes-sich-con-ne
Abenaki...................gzelômsen
Mohegan.................wápáyu-
Powhatan................kikithamots
None of these has any similarity to moosiap.
In Mahican the word for a hill is wujew and place names end in the locative suffix -eg, so in theory *wujew-sâxen-eg would mean "hill-windy-at".
How do you say grandmother in Narragansett Indian language?
The Narragansett word for grandmother is nokummus (my grandmother); okummus means his grandmother; in formally addressing someone as a grandmother the term used is wutt∞kummīssin.
How do you write Happy birthday in any native American language?
How do you write happy birthday in Apachie native Indian?
The indian peoples who most successfully adapted to european incursion were?
They were the Appalachian tribes who used their advantages of time, space, and numbers to create a "middle ground" of economic and cultural interaction.
How do you say grandmother in Kwakiutl?
In the Northern Wakashan languages you say mamáʼu[pronounced mama - au).
How do you say WINTER in native American?
There are numerous native American languages, but "Winter" in the two most common forms of Cherokee is Gola (Go-la) or Goli (Go-Lee, or Goe-Lee)
What is translation for the word teacher in native American?
The is no "Native American" language. There are hundreds of languages in dozens of unrelated language families.
In Navajo, which is in the Southern Athabaskan family teacher is: bá'ólta'Ã
The marks above vowels mean they are high tone, Navajo is a tonal language like Chinese. The marks between are the consonant glottal stop. We have it only in a few places in English like in the middle of "Uh'oh"
What languages are spoken by the First Nations people?
First Nations people speak the following 65 languages, as well as English, Spanish, and French:
- Abenaki
- Algonquin
- Babine-Witsuwit'en
- Beothuk
- Blackfoot
- Broken Slavey
- Bungee
- Carrier
- Cayuga
- Chiac
- Chilcotin
- Chinook Jargon
- Coast Tsimshian
- Comox
- Cree
- Dene Suline
- Dogrib
- Gwich'in
- Haida
- Haisla
- Halkomelem
- Hän
- Heiltsuk-Oowekyala
- Innu-aimun
- Inuinnaqtun
- Inuktitut
- Inupiaq
- Inuvialuktun
- Kaska
- Kutenai
- Kwak'wala
- Labrador Inuit Pidgin French
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Michif
- Mi'kmaq
- Mohawk
- Munsee
- Naskapi
- Nicola
- Nitinaht
- Nlaka'pamuctsin
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Nuxálk
- Ojibwe
- Okanagan
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Ottawa
- Potawatomi
- Saanich
- Sekani
- Seneca
- Sháshíshálh
- Shuswap
- Slavey
- Squamish
- St'at'imcets
- Tagish
- Tahltan
- Tlingit
- Tsuut'ina
- Tuscarora
- Tutchone
- Western Abnaki
- Wyandot
What is the native American word for leader?
The English name is "chief" (tribal chieftain) but the Indian terms were many and varied.
(see the related question)
