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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
How did the first inhabitants of north American reach north America?
Many agree that people crossed the Beringia land bridge that existed between Siberia and what is now Alaska.
What do women do in their spare time?
Some women would like to do some shopping. Some might watch t.v or go swimming.
But they might like going out with friends some might even like computer games. Like I said it all depends on the woman.
How do you say Love in any native language?
Polish- kocham cie
Dutch- ik hou van je
French- je t'aime
Greek- S-agapo
Bulgarian - obicham te
Irish- love tu'
Italian- ti amo
Spanish- te quiero
Romanian - te iubesc
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Cherokee Indian Language - gygeyuhi (broken down as gv-ge-yu-hi)
Hawaiian - Aloha wau ia oe (pronounced Ah-Low-ha vow ee-ah-oh-ay)
Azerbaijanian - Men seni severam
Aruba, Bonaire, Curaco - mi stimabo
Albanian - Te dua
Brazilian Portuguese - eu te amo
Persian - Tora dust midaram
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
Lao - Khoi huk chau
Sioux - Techihhila
Catalan - T'estimo
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Japanese - Aishiteru
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
Bavarian - I mog di narrisch gern
Dhivehi - Aharen Kalaa Dhekeh loabivey
Basque - Maite zaitut
Kashmiri - Meh chi chain maai
Hawanie - Washem grakani
Amharic - Afe Krishalehou
Gujarati - Tane Prem karoo choo
Chinese - Wo ie ni
Galician - Amote
Cambodian - Kh nhaum soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese - Ngo oi ney
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Niasan - Omasido khou
Chanchal - main Tere bina main ji nahi pauga
Persian - Tora dust midaram
Xhosa - ndiyakuthanda
Vlaams - ik zie je graag or ik hou van je
Bhojpuri - Ham tahara se pyar
Bavarian - I mog di narrisch gern
Berber Lakh tirikh
Bosnian - volim te
Flemish - ik zie je graag or ik hou van je
English - I love you
Estonian - ma armastan sind
Georgian - Me shen mikvarkhar
Bisaya - Nahigugma ko nimo
Cebuano - Gi gugma kita
Low Saxon - ik hou van ju
Hindi - main tumse pyar karta hoo
Latin - te amo
Napoletano - t'ammo
Lingala - na lingi yo
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Creole - Mwen nenmen w
Oriya - Mu tumaku bhala paye
Irish - Taim l' ngra leat
Hausa - Ina sonki
Lahu - Nga naw nta haja
Welch - Rwy'n dy garu di
Bemba - Nalikutemwa
Sinhalese - Mama Oyata Aadarei
Chamorro - Hu Guiya Hao
Amharic - Afekrishalehou
Armenian - yes kez siroumem
Bangladeshi - Ami tomake valobashi
Esperanto - mi amas vin
Spanish - te amo
Cornish - My a'th kar
English - I love you
Brazilian Portugese - eu te amo
Bhojpuri - Ham tahara se pyar karila
Icelansic - Eg elska tig
Greenlandic - Asavakit
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premisthunnaanu
Indonesian - Aku mencintaimu
Chanchal - Main tere bina main ji mahi pauga
Galician - amo-te
Attie - min bou la ye
Catalan - t'estimo
Friulam - o ti vuei ben
Napoletano - t' ammo
Dioula - mi fe
Occitan - t' aimi
Faroese - eg elski teg
Bobo - Ma kia be na
Kinyarwanda - ndagukunda
Timorese - Hau hadomi
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Kazakh - Men seny jaksy kuremyn
Niasan - Omasido Khou
Javanese - Aku terno kowe
Karen - Ya Eh Na Arr Gyi Law
Friesian - Ik ha ld fan dy
Armenian (western) Kezi chat ge sirem
Tamil - Nan Unnai Khadal Likeran
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
German - I mog Di ganz arg
Basque - Asko maite zaitut (I love you a lot)
Swiss-German - Ch'ha di ga'rn
Javanese - Aku cinta kamu
Bicol - Namumutan ta ka
How do you say God in Native American?
In the Natick language spoken by the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Niantics and neighbouring tribes, the general term for any god is manit, plural manittowock.
This is derived from the prefix m' (something) plus anit (above or more than).
More specifically, 37 different named gods were recognised in the Natick language, including "the great south west god", "the western god", "the woman's god", "the house god", the sea god", "the children's god" and "the fire god".
How do you say baby bear in native American?
There are more than 300 North American Native languages. Many are as different as Chinese, English and Arabic.
In Dine' bizaad, (Navajo Language) little bear is shash yázhí
yázhí means little or young and the marks over the vowels mean they are high tone. The zh is pronounced like the middle of the word measure.
Baby is: awééʼ
So it could be shash awééʼ as well.
This is high tone too with a glottal stop at the end.
What is the native American word for faith?
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
- Barbare
What is the native American translation of devil?
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 wild?
There probably isn't one - most, if not all, Indigenous languages don't have a word for "wild" because "wilderness" was not a concept. What is now known as "the wilderness" was home, and where food was gathered or hunted. The land wasn't wild to them because they knew it.
What is the native American word for penguin?
First, there is no such language as "Native American". There were over 2000 different languages and dialects spoke by Native Americans.
Second- penguins live at the very southern tip of South America, and the beaches of Antarctica. Native Americans are at the other end of the earth, and never saw a penguin. Therefore no word for penguin.
What is the Native American Indian translation of Ghost Dog or Ghost Eyes?
It depends on which of the 400 different native American languages you are referring to.
How do you say grandfather in Cree?
I am Cree and the cree word for grandfather is Mushom (pronounced Mooshoom).
What is the native American word for arrow?
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 Navajo word for cheese?
Ayání
The second a and final i being high tone, Navajo is tonal and it changes meaning. "A" is said like father, i like in "bit".
ayání did not live in the Navajo area for the most part, only a few. In stories they mostly function as symbols of Plains peoples.
What percent of people in Uruguay speak Spanish?
According to the CIA World Factbook, about 15.1% of the total US population is Hispanic.
*the US Census Bureau defines Hispanic to mean persons of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino origin including those of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic, Spanish, and Central or South American origin living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group
What is the native American word for balance?
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 Lakota words for Talking Crow?
The Lakota word for a crow (bird) is kangi(with a nasal "a" sound).
There are many different verbs for "to talk", each with a different shade of meaning that is dificult to express in English. Woyag means "talking or telling things", woich'iglakAmeans to talk about oneself, akhiyA is to talk in a group, howayA is to talk intensely without stopping, and so on.
Kangi woyag would therefore mean "a crow bird that tells things".
How do you say my wife in Navajo?
Her husband: bahastiin or bich'ooní or biką'. (take away the bi and add shi for "my'. Add ni for "your").
Hastiin alone can mean older man or husband
or: bił hinishnáanii (the one I live with)
How do you say grandma or grandmother in the language of the Chickahominy Indians?
In all of the Powhatan dialects of Algonquian (including Chickahominy) you have to say "my grandmother", "your grandmother", "his grandmother" and so on.
"my grandmother" is nunohum [nuhNOhum]
What is the old word for Wolf Spirit?
There are more than 450 different languages spoken in India, so you would have to be more specific.
If you are talking about Native American Languages, there are more than 700 spoken today. Again, you would need to specify which language you want to translate into.
Answer:
It depends on which of the hundreds of tribes of Native Americans, but a common Native American language is the Dakota Native American language. Some Native American languages are similar to the Dakota language too, so I'll just tell you it in Dakota.
The Dakota word for wolf spirit is 'shunkahah wanagi'.
Note: The reason why people get confused between calling Indians Native Americans is because Indians are from India. Native Americans are from the United States of America. Christopher Columbus accidentally called the Native Americans he saw Indians, because he thought they looked like they came from India. This website: (See related links) will explain this better than me. Hope this helps!
What is the native American word for shark?
Depending on how you count there are 17 native languages in the Pacific Northwest and one Trade Jargon, Chinook. There actually were and are divisions between those groups that make more languages than that. Many of them are as different from each other as English and Arabic.
In Chinook Jargon, which developed to trade from one tribe to another and then to different European traders as well, the word for shark is: hyas kahmooks pish. The language was spoke by about 100,000 people at it's high point, around 1858. It was a language with a native base and English, French, Hawaiian, Chinese and other loan words. It is still used by some people today. At one time, many residents of Vancouver, BC spoke Chinook Jargon as their first language, even using it at home in preference to English.
The general term for bear in the Comanche language is wasape. A bear trap is wasape pʉmata kwʉhʉrʉ'.
