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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

Native American Languages

What is the native American word for laugh?

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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
BarbareÃƒÂ±o
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
CruzeÃƒÂ±o
CupeÃƒÂ±o
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
IneseÃƒÂ±o
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
LuiseÃƒÂ±o
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
ObispeÃƒÂ±o
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
PurisimeÃƒÂ±o
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
TÃƒÂ¼batulabal
Tunica
Tuscarora
Tutelo
Tututni
Twana
Umatilla
Unami
Ute-Southern Paiute
VentureÃƒÂ±o
Wailaki
Walla Walla
Wampanoag
Wappo
Wasco-Wishram
Washo
Wichita
Wintu
Wiyot
Wyandot
Yakima
Yaqui
Yokuts
Yuchi
Yuki
Yurok
Zuni

Native American Languages

India Language and Culture

How do you say hello my name is in Indian language?

Asked by Anonymous

There is no such language as "Indian". The Indian subcontinent (Asian Indians) and the Native American Tribes (North American Indians) have a vast array of languages, many of which are wholly unrelated to each other. In order to get a proper answer, you need to specify which Indian language you are interested in.

In Hindi, the most popular language in India, the translation would be: "me bada kutta ho"

Native American Languages

What is the native American word for buffalo or bison?

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In general terms only those tribes that had interaction with the American bison (buffalo) had a native word in their own language for that animal; in many cases there were different words for male and female buffalo, for old and young and for different coloured animals.

Here are a few examples:

Blackfoot..........................iinii, stomick (bull)

Cheyenne........................hotova'a (bull), hotoaao'o (female)

Arapaho...........................biis (female), heneecee (bull), nonooni (calf)

Hidatsa............................mite kedapi

Crow................................bishee, tidusup (bull)

Lakota.............................pte (female), tatanka (bull, also elk, bear), ptehinchala (calf), heyuktan (bent horns), ptesan (white buffalo)

Navajo.............................ayani

Pawnee...........................tarha

Arikara (Sanish)...............tanaha'

Native American Languages

How do you say wolf in native American?

Asked by Anonymous

There is no "Native American language", there are more than 5,000 spoken indigenous languages in north America.

"Wendy" is also an English name that cannot translate directly, however if you find the root meaning of "Wendy" - Friend then you can convert "Friend" to a native language.

In Cherokee "Friend" is "U na li i" - pronounced something like "Ooh-nay-lee-e"

Native American Languages

What is the Native American word for water wolf spirit?

Asked by Anonymous

AMA is the Cherokee name for water

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Answer - Just a few of many hundreds of possible words meaning water are:

Lakota...............................mini

Assiniboine........................mini

Hidatsa..............................midi or miri

Crow..................................bili

Osage................................ni

Baxoje (Ioway, Otoe and Missouri)...........ni, nin

Shawnee............................nippee

Powhatan...........................suckquohana

Abenaki...............................nebi

Mohegan.............................nupi

Delaware.............................mbi

Blackfoot...............................aohkíí

Cheyenne..............................mahpe

Cree......................................nipiy

Ojibwe..................................nibi

Maliseet................................samaqan

Nahuatl (Aztec).....................atl

Yaqui.....................................ba'am

Hopi.......................................paahu

Shoshone...............................baa' or paa

Choctaw.................................oka

Mohawk..................................ohneka

Apache...................................tu

Jicarilla....................................ko

Navajo....................................to

Haida......................................gántl

Tlingit......................................hin

Aikara (Sanish)........................tstoóxo

Pawnee...................................kiítsu'

Translations

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Mohawk Indians

How do you say funny in Mohawk language?

Asked by Anonymous

How do you say I miss you

Native American Languages

What is the Indian word for truth?

Asked by Anonymous

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.

Native American Languages

What is hello in native American language?

Asked by Anonymous

Many Native American tribes and civilizations speak english now, so "Hello" is "Hello" regardless of their race or tribe. There are numerous (in the hundreds, if not thousands) of individual Native American Tribes, and each one could easily have a slightly different language.

Here are some examples;

Choctaw - Halito.

Lakota - Hua Kola

Seminole - Istonko

Native American Languages

What is the native American word for little sister?

Asked by Anonymous

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.

Native American Languages

What is the Native American word for heart?

Asked by Anonymous

ajéí

Means a heart not just heart.

Shijéí- my heart, nijéí- your heart, bijéí- her, his, it's heart, nihijéí- their heart and so on. There is also a plural and dual possessive.

In non medical settings ajéídíshjool is more often used. It useles for all the same particles in show possession.

In Navajo body parts such as heart or eye must always be in the possessive. The word " heart" does not exist on it's own. They are inalienable. The marks above the vowels mean they are high tone.

Native American Languages

What does Oscelola mean in Native American Language?

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Osceola is an anglicised form of the Creek Asi-yahola(pronounced [asːi jahoːla]); the combination of asi, the ceremonial black drink made from the yaupon holly, and yahola, meaning shout or shouter.

Native American Languages

How do you say mom in native American language?

Asked by Anonymous

There are thousands of native American languages if you include those of Central and South America, Canada and the USA. Here are just a few native terms for "mother":

Mapuche.................ñuke

Xavante..................dadá

Quechua.................mama

Parakan..................hya

Miskito...................yapti

Aztec (Nahuatl)..........nantli

Choctaw..................hvshki

Mohawk..................-'nihstenha

Cherokee.................unitsi

Abenaki...................nigawes

Powhatan.................kick, or kicke

Blackfoot.................na'á

Cheyenne...................ške

Maliseet..................nika

Mohegan.................nonôk

Naskapi..................ukaawimaaw

Ojibwe.......................omaamaamaa, or weniijaanid, or oga

Lakota.......................ina

Crow.........................masaka

Hidatsa......................hidu, or hu, or ikas

Haida.........................díi aw (my mother)

Tlingit.........................tlaa

Ahtna.........................snaan

Kaska.........................esmuma

Tagish........................mema, or eshma

Tutchone....................ene

Yupik..........................aana

Mayan (Yucatec).........mamah, or na'

In Plains sign language, to make the sign for "mother" use the partially curved compressed right hand make two or three taps or plucks at the left side of the chest.

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Native American History

Native American Languages

What languages are spoken by Salish Indians?

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Salish is the language that many different tribes in the northwestern United States (from Washington to Montana and south to northern Oregon) and parts of southwestern Canada (mainly British Columbia). There are more than 150 dialects that are almost entirely different, and many more pidgins within those dialects.

The Salish Nation speak Salish which has many different regional dialects.

Native American Languages

Navajo Indians

What is the Navajo word for spider?

Asked by Anonymous

The Navajo word táni·l'ái means "which is spread out on water" and is used as the name for dragonflies

Native American Languages

What is the Native American word for hunter?

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akicita...meaning: peace keepers

Native American Languages

Peace

How do you say peace in native American?

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There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America.

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
BarbareÃ±o
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
CruzeÃ±o
CupeÃ±o
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
IneseÃ±o
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
LuiseÃ±o
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
ObispeÃ±o
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
PurisimeÃ±o
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
TÃ¼batulabal
Tunica
Tuscarora
Tutelo
Tututni
Twana
Umatilla
Unami
Ute-Southern Paiute
VentureÃ±o
Wailaki
Walla Walla
Wampanoag
Wappo
Wasco-Wishram
Washo
Wichita
Wintu
Wiyot
Wyandot
Yakima
Yaqui
Yokuts
Yuchi
Yuki
Yupik, Central
Yupik, Central Siberian
Yupik, Pacific Gulf
Yurok
Zuni

Native American Languages

Can you give me a long list of the Native American Indian tribes that there are?

Asked by Anonymous

There are 565 Federally (USA) recognized tribes. Additionally there are Tribes that are recognized by the state they live in; but not by the Federal government.

AA'ananin (Aane), Abenaki (Abnaki, Abanaki, Abenaqui), Absaalooke (Absaroke), Achumawi (Achomawi), Acjachemen, Acoma, Agua Caliente, Adai, Ahtna (Atna), Ajachemen, Akimel O'odham, Akwaala (Akwala), Alabama-Coushatta, Aleut, Alutiiq, Algonquians (Algonkians), Algonquin (Algonkin), Alliklik, Alnobak (AlnÃ´bak, Alnombak), Alsea (Ã„lsÃ©, Alseya), Andaste, Anishinaabe (Anishinabemowin, Anishnabay), Aniyunwiya, AntoniaÃ±o, Apache, Apalachee, Applegate, Apsaalooke (Apsaroke), Arapaho (Arapahoe), Arawak, Arikara, Assiniboine, Atakapa, Atikamekw, Atsina, Atsugewi (Atsuke), Araucano (Araucanian), Avoyel (Avoyelles), Ayisiyiniwok, Aymara, Aztec

Babine, Bannock, BarbareÃ±o, Bari, Bear River, Beaver, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Beothuks (Betoukuag), Bidai, Biloxi, Black Carib, Blackfoot (Blackfeet), Blood Indians, Bora

Caddo (Caddoe), Cahita, Cahto, Cahuilla, Calapooya (Calapuya, Calapooia), Calusa (Caloosa), Carib, Carquin, Carrier, Caska, Catawba, Cathlamet, Cayuga, Cayuse, Celilo, Central Pomo, Chahta, Chalaque, Chappaquiddick (Chappaquiddic, Chappiquidic), Chawchila (Chawchilla), Chehalis, Chelan, Chemehuevi, Cheraw, Cheroenhaka (Cheroenkhaka, Cherokhaka), Cherokee, Chetco, Cheyenne (Cheyanne), Chickamaugan, Chickasaw, Chilcotin, Chilula-Wilkut, Chimariko, Chinook, Chinook Jargon, Chipewyan (Chipewyin), Chippewa, Chitimacha (Chitamacha), Chocheno, Choctaw, Cholon, Chontal de Tabasco (Chontal Maya), Choynimni (Choinimni), Chukchansi, Chumash, Clackamas (Clackama), Clallam, Clatskanie (Clatskanai), Clatsop, Cmique, Coastal Cree, Cochimi, Cochiti, Cocopa (Cocopah), Coeur d'Alene, Cofan, Columbia (Columbian), Colville, Comanche, Comcaac, Comox, Conestoga, Coos (Coosan), Copper River Athabaskan, Coquille, Cora, Coso, Costanoan, Coushatta, Cowichan, Cowlitz, Cree, Creek, Croatan (Croatoan), Crow, CruzeÃ±o, Cuna, Cucupa (Cucapa), CupeÃ±o (Cupa), Cupik (Cu'pik, Cuit)

Dakelh, Dakota, Dakubetede, Dawson, Deg Xinag (Deg Hit'an), Delaware, Dena'ina (Denaina), Dene, Dene Suline (Denesuline), Dene Tha, Diegueno, Dine (Dineh), Dogrib, Dohema (Dohma), Dumna, Dunne-za (Dane-zaa, Dunneza),

Eastern Inland Cree, Eastern Pomo, Eel River Athabascan, Eenou (Eeyou), Eskimo, Esselen, Etchemin (Etchimin), Euchee, Eudeve (Endeve), Excelen, Eyak

Fernandeno (FernandeÃ±o), Flathead Salish, Fox

Gabrielino (GabrieleÃ±o), Gae, Gaigwu, Galibi, Galice, Garifuna, Gashowu, Gitxsan (Gitksan), Gosiute (Goshute), Gros Ventre, Guarani, Guarijio (GuarijÃo), Gulf, Gwich'in (Gwichin, Gwitchin),

Haida, Haisla, Halkomelem (Halqomeylem), HÃ¤n (Han Hwech'in), Hanis, Hare, Hatteras, Haudenosaunee, Havasupai, Hawaiian, Heiltsuk, Heve, Hiaki, Hichiti (Hitchiti), Hidatsa, Hocak (Ho-Chunk, Hochunk), Holikachuk, Homalco, Hoopa, Hopi, Hopland Pomo, Hualapai, Huelel, Huichol, Huichun, Hupa, Huron

Illini (Illiniwek, Illinois), Inca, IneseÃ±o (InezeÃ±o), Ingalik (Ingalit), Innoko, Innu, Inuktitut (Inupiat, Inupiaq, Inupiatun), Iowa-Oto (Ioway), Iroquois Confederacy, Ishak, IsleÃ±o, Isleta, Itza Maya (Itzah), Iviatim, Iynu

James Bay Cree, Jemez, Juaneno (JuaneÃ±o), Juichun

Kabinapek, Kainai (Kainaiwa), Kalapuya (Kalapuyan, Kalapooya), Kalina (KaliÃ±a), Kanenavish, Kanien'kehaka (Kanienkehaka), Kalispel, Kansa (Kanza, Kanze), Karankawa, Karkin, Karok (Karuk), Kashaya, Kaska, Kaskaskia, Kathlamet, Kato, Kaw, Kenaitze (Kenai), Keres (Keresan), Kichai, Kickapoo (Kikapu), Kiliwa (Kiliwi), Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Kitanemuk, Kitsai, Klahoose, Klallam, Klamath-Modoc, Klatskanie (Klatskanai), Klatsop, Klickitat, Koasati, Kolchan, Konkow (Konkau), Konomihu, Kootenai (Ktunaxa, Kutenai), Koso, Koyukon, Kuitsh, Kulanapo (Kulanapan, Kulanapa), Kumeyaay (Kumiai), Kuna, Kupa, Kusan, Kuskokwim, Kutchin (Kootchin), Kwaiailk, Kwakiutl (Kwakwala), Kwalhioqua, Kwantlen, Kwapa (Kwapaw), Kwinault (Kwinayl)

Laguna, Lakhota (Lakota), Lakmiak (Lakmayut), Lassik, Laurentian (Lawrencian), Lecesem, Lenape (Lenni Lenape), Lillooet, Lipan Apache, Listiguj (Listuguj), Lnuk (L'nuk, L'nu'k, Lnu), Lokono, Loucheux (Loucheaux), Loup, Lower Chehalis, Lower Coquille, Lower Cowlitz, Lower Tanana, Lower Umpqua, Luckiamute (Lukiamute), LuiseÃ±o, Lumbee, Lummi, Lushootseed, Lutuamian

Macushi (Macusi), Mahican, Maidu, Maina (Mayna), Makah, Makushi, Maliseet (Maliceet, Malisit, Malisset), Mandan, Mapuche (Mapudungun, Mapudugan), Maricopa, Massachusett (Massachusetts), Massasoit (Massassoit, Mashpee), Mattabesic Mattole, Maumee, Matlatzinca, Mayan, Mayo, Mengwe, Menominee (Menomini), Mescalero-Chiricahua, Meskwaki (Mesquakie), Metis Creole, Miami-Illinois, Miccosukee, Michif, Micmac (Mi'gmaq), MigueleÃ±o, Mikasuki, Mi'kmaq (Mikmawisimk), Mingo, Minqua, Minsi, Minto, Miskito (Mosquito), Missouria, Miwok (Miwuk), Mixe, Mixtec (Mixteco, Mixteca), Mobilian Trade Jargon, Modoc, Mohave, Mohawk, Mohegan, Mohican, Mojave, Molale (Molalla, Molala), Monache (Mono), Montagnais, Montauk, Moosehide, Multnomah, Munsee (Munsie, Muncey, Muncie), Muskogee (Muscogee, Mvskoke), Musqueam, Mutsun

Nabesna, Nadot'en (Natoot'en, Natut'en), Nahane (Nahani, Nahanne), Nahuat, Nahuatl, Nakoda (Nakota), Nambe, Nanticoke, Nantucket, Narragansett, Naskapi, Nass-Gitxsan, Natchez, Natick, Naugutuck, Navajo (Navaho), Nawat, Nayhiyuwayin, Nde, Nee-me-poo, Nehiyaw (Nehiyawok), Netela, New Blackfoot, Newe, Nez Perce, Niantic, Nicola, Niitsipussin (Niitsitapi), Nimiipuu (Nimi'ipu), Nipmuc, Nisenan (Nishinam), Nisga'a (Nisgaa, Nishga), Nlaka'pamux (Nlakapamux), Nomlaki, Nooksack (Nooksak), Nootka (Nutka), Nootsak, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Carrier, Northern Cheyenne, Nottoway, Nuu-chaa-nulth (Nuuchahnulth), Nuxalk

ObispeÃ±o, Ocuilteco, Odawa, Ofo, Ogahpah (Ogaxpa), Ohlone, Ojibwa (Ojibway, Ojibwe, Ojibwemowin), Oji-Cree, Okanagan (Okanogan), Okwanuchu, Old Blackfoot, Omaha-Ponca, Oneida, Onondaga, O'ob No'ok (O:b No'ok), O'odham (Oodham), Opata, Osage, Otchipwe, Otoe, Ottawa

Pai, Paipai, Paiute, Palaihnihan (Palaihnih, Palahinihan), Palewyami, Palouse, Pamlico, Panamint, Papago-Pima, Pascua Yaqui, Passamaquoddy, Patuxet, Patwin, Paugussett (Paugusset), Pawnee, Peigan, Pend D'Oreille, Penobscot (Pentagoet), Pentlatch (Pentlach), Peoria, Pequot, Picuris, Piegan (Piikani), Pima, Pima Bajo, Pipil, Pit River, Plains Indian Sign Language, Pojoaque, Pomo (Pomoan), Ponca, Poospatuck (Poosepatuk, Poospatuk, Poosepatuck), Popoluca (Popoloca), Potawatomi (Pottawatomie, Potawatomie), Powhatan, Pueblo, Puget Sound Salish, PurisimeÃ±o, PutÃºn

Quapaw (Quapa), Quechan, Quechua, Quilcene, Quileute, Quinault, Quinnipiac (Quinnipiack), Quiripi

Raramuri, Red Indians, Restigouche, Rumsen, Runasimi

Saanich, Sac, Sahaptin, Salhulhtxw, Salinan, Salish, Samish, Sandia, Sanish (Sahnish), San Felipe, San Ildefonso, San Juan, Sanpoil, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santiam, Santo Domingo, Saponi, Sarcee (Sarsi), Sastean (Sasta), Satsop, Savannah, Sauk, Saulteaux, Schaghticoke (Scaticook), Sechelt, Secwepemc (Secwepmectsin), Sekani, Selkirk, Seminoles, Seneca, Seri, Serrano, Seshelt, Severn Ojibwe, Shanel, Shasta (Shastan), Shawnee (Shawano), Shinnecock, Shoshone (Shoshoni), Shuar, Shuswap, Siksika (Siksikawa), Siletz, Similkameen, Sinkiuse (Sincayuse), Sinkyone, Sioux, Siuslaw, Skagit, Skicin, S'Klallam, Skokomish, Skraeling, Skwamish, Slavey (Slave, Slavi), Sliammon (Sliamon), Sm'algyax, Snichim, Snohomish, Songish, Sooke, Souriquois (Sourquois), Southeastern Pomo, Southern Paiute, Spokane (Spokan), Squamish, Sqwxwu7mesh, Stadaconan, St'at'imcets (St'at'imc), Stockbridge, Sto:lo, Stoney, Straits Salish, Sugpiaq, Suquamish, Susquehannock, Suwal, Swampy Cree, Swinomish

Tabasco Chontal, Tachi (Tache), Taensa, Tahltan, Tagish, Tahcully, Taino, Takelma (Takilma), Takla, Taltushtuntude, Tamyen, Tanacross, Tanaina, Tanana, Tano, Taos, Tarahumara, Tataviam, Tauira (Tawira), Teguime, Tehachapi, Ten'a, Tenino, Tepehuano (Tepecano), Tequistlateco (Tequistlatec), Tesuque, Tetes-de-Boules, Tewa, Thompson, Tigua, Tillamook, Timbisha (Timbasha), Timucua, Tinde, Tinneh, Tiwa, Tjekan, Tlahuica (Tlahura), Tlatskanie (Tlatskanai), Tlatsop, Tlicho Dinne, Tlingit, Tohono O'odham, Tolowa, Tongva, Tonkawa, Towa, Tsalagi (Tsa-la-gi), Tsattine, Tsekani (Tsek'ehne), Tsetsehestahese, Tsetsaut, Tsilhqot'in (Tzilkotin), Tsimshian (Tsimpshian), Tsitsistas, Tsooke, Tsoyaha, Tsuu T'ina (Tsuutina), Tualatin, Tubar (Tubare), Tubatulabal, Takudh, Tulalip, Tumpisa (TÃ¼mbisha, Tumbisha), Tunica, Tupi, Tuscarora, Tutchone, Tutelo, Tututni, Tuwa'duqutsid, Twana, Twatwa (Twightwee)

Uchi (Uche, Uchee), Ukiah (Ukian, Uki, Ukia), Ukomnom, Umatilla, Unami, Unangan (Unangax), Unkechaug (Unquachog) Upper Chehalis, Upper Chinook, Upper Cowlitz, Upper Tanana, Upper Umpqua, Ute

VentureÃ±o, Virginian Algonkin

Wailaki (Wailakki), Wailatpu (Waylatpu), Walapai, Walla Walla, Wampano, Wampanoag, Wanapam, Wanki (Wangki), Wappinger, Wappo, Warijio (Warihio, WarijÃo), Warm Springs, Wasco-Wishram, Washo (Washoe), Wazhazhe, Wea, Wenatchi (Wenatchee), Wendat, Weott, Western Pomo, Whilkut, White Clay People, Wichita (Witchita), Wikchamni, Willapa (Willopah), Winnebago, Wintu (Wintun), Wishram, Witsuwit'en (Witsuwiten), Wiyot (Wi'yot, Wishosk), Wolastoqewi (Wolastoqiyik), Wyandot (Wyandotte)

Yakama (Yakima), Yanesha, Yaquina (Yakonan, Yakon), Yavapai, Yawelmani, Yaqui, Yinka Dene, YneseÃ±o (YnezeÃ±o), Yocot'an, Yokaia (Yakaya), Yokuts (Yokut, Yokutsan), Yoncalla (Yonkalla), Yowlumni, YsleÃ±o, Ysleta del Sur, Yucatec Maya (Yucateco, Yucatan), Yuchi (Yuchee) Yuki (Yukian), Yuma, Yupik (Yu'pik, Yuit), Yurok (Yu'rok)

Zapotec, Zia, Zimshian, Zoque, Zuni

Translations

Native American Languages

What is native American for wolf?

Asked by Anonymous

The Navajo word for wolf is mai-coh

The Cherokee word for wolf is wa-ya, pronounced wah-yah.

(There is no such language as "Native American". There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken today in North America.)

Native American Languages

What is native American word for princess?

Asked by Anonymous

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

This question is very difficult to answer because there are hundreds of Native American tribes, and thus, hundreds of languages. The matter is further complicated because many Native Americans no longer speak their indigenous language (some have even died out); but some still do, or they have rescued their language and preserved it (the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe is a good example of this). If you give us more information about which particular tribal language interests you, we can then give you an answer.

Native American Languages

What is the native American word for mom?

Asked by Anonymous

The word "Indian" is a very vague term that could easily refer to the many languages of India; if you are asking for an example of a native American word for "mother" out of many hundreds (even thousands) of possible words, then the Natick word is okasu or witchwhaw.

Natick is the name of the Algonquian language spoken by the Wampanoag, Narragansett and Massachusetts tribes.

Native American History

Native American Languages

What languages were spoken by Shawnee Indians?

Asked by Anonymous

The Shoshone Indians called themselves the Newe, which means "people". They are related to the Bannocks under the Uto-Aztecan speaking group.

Native American Languages

What is the American Indian name for Turkey?

Asked by Anonymous

The word "turkey" did not originate in any North American native language. The name of the turkey originates in two compounded mistakes. First, the guinea fowl was mistakenly called the "turkey" because it was originally imported to Europe via Turkey and so was thought to originate in Turkey. It actually comes from Africa. Second, when European explorers and settlers first saw wild turkeys in the Americas, they considered them a type of guinea fowl and called them "turkeys." Domesticated turkeys actually originated in what is now Mexico. They may have been first domesticated by some predecessor culture of the Aztecs, or by the Aztecs themselves. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)