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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 Cherokee name for Deborah?
Not all names can translate into Cherokee, but, this one does or a variation of Debra. It's De qua (pronounced day-kwah)
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What is the lakota word for daughter?
The Lakota term ch'unkshi can mean daughter!, or my daughter; ch'unkshi kin means a daughter; ch'unkshiwaye means she is my daughter.
The word ch'unkshi is also applied to the daughters of a woman's sisters and other female relatives.
An alternative word for daughter is chuwitku.
How do you say thank you for coming in Navajo?
In Navajo not everything is word for word like it is in English.
You could just say ahéhee'. (ah-hyeh-he') meaning "thank you."
If you are starting to talk to a gathering you might say: Ahéhee' shikéí dóó shidine'é… (Thank you my friends/family and my people…)
or
you might say if someone has come to see you: Shaa yíníyáhígíí baa 'ahééh nisin.
---Which means "I'm grateful (or appreciate or thankful) for you coming to see me".
You can say this many ways with slight differences that change it a great deal in the way you say it in Navajo.
"I'm thankful for you for coming to see me like you usually do" would make a different conjugation than : "I'm grateful for you coming to see me over and over".
Usually you need more careful particulars in the Navajo than you need in the Navajo because there are modes and aspects in Navajo as well as tense and the verb conjugates as to who is being spoken about with a dual and plural and fourth person and indefinite person too. Sometimes the verb changes depending on what sort of object is being acted upon, such as picking up a round object vs a long thin flexible one.
How do Native Americans say Hello?
It depends upon which language they speak. Most speak English now, so "hello" is "hello." But tribes had their own language or family of languages. Estimates place the number of distinct native American languages a t over 1000.
Choctaw - Halito.
Lakota - Hua Kola
Seminole - Istonko
What is the Navajo word for learn?
to learn (1st person imperfective)--íhoosh'aah
ínáhoosh'ááh--- Iterative mode. íhooł'ą́ą́' --- perfective.
íhwiideesh'ááł --future mode. íhoosh'ááł --Optative mode
"Are you leaning Navajo" ---Diné bizaadísh bóhooł'aah
Aoo' dine bizaad bihoosh'aah. --Yes, I am learning Navajo language.
yihoołaah--- he is learning it
Navajo has many, many more ways to conjugate a verb than in English.
What is the mohican word for river?
There is no language called Mohican, since the Mohican tribe was invented by James Fenimore Cooper for one of his books. He had heard of two different eastern woodlands tribes (the Mohegan and the Mahican) and simply mixed the two names together to produce a third.
In the Mahican language the word for river is sibò; in Mohegan it is sipo.
What does nescopeck mean in the native American language?
One modern "expert" has written that the place-name Nescopeck is "An Indian word meaning "black, deep, and still water." Ignoring the impossibly vague term "Indian word", there is no native American language that can express three different concepts (black, deep and still) in such a short word. Another writer claims that it is an Algonquian word for "black spring", which seems far more likely.
Since the place is said to be in north-eastern Pennsylvania the language should be Unami (Lenape). In that language water is mpi and black is sëke or sLike-; clearly neither of these appear in the word nescopeck.
One very archaic Lenape word for a lake is scheyjunuppek, which could comprise two elements (big + pool of water), with -uppek looking very close to -opek. If the nesc- element is similarly archaic and means dark or deep or something of that kind, the word would make sense as "black pool or spring".
What is the English translation for the Lakota word icataga?
The Lakota prefix iča- signifies "alongside", but there is no such element as taga in Lakota. The word ičagla means "by the edge of" - this is the nearest I can find.
Perhaps you need to check the spelling of your word - is the second letter really a c (pronounced ch)? or is it a k?
What is Cheyenne Bottoms and where is it located?
Cheyenne Bottoms is in northern Barton County in Kansas and is a natural depression from prehistoric times. It is a birding attraction on the Cnetral flyway and is on the RAMSAR list of wetlenads of international importance.It ocvers 41,000 acres totally.
What is the native American word for sqirrel?
I guess you mean "squirrel" and there are many hundreds of native languages throughout North, Central and South America. Just a few examples from the North American continent are:
Powhatan................................missanek
Ojibwe.....................................ajidamoo
Mohegan..................................mushaniq or mishánneke
Mahican...................................sgulul
Maliseet...................................atutuwehc or atutuwehc
Abenaki....................................mikowa or anikwses
Delaware (Lenape)..................haniqus or wisawanik
Shawnee.................................anniqua
Cherokee.................................saloli
Apache.....................................tseskussi
Jicarilla.....................................najilkaii
Navajo......................................t'lazi
Choctaw...................................fani
What is a native of Massachusetts called?
native as in someone that was born in massachusetts?
or native as in descended from the original inhabitants?
I wouldn't know about the first but for the second, you could check these links... they all have lists of native tribes from the state of massachusetts... one of which are themassachusetts.
(Some pages have more info than others)
http://www.native-languages.org/massachusetts.htm
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/massachusetts/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampanoag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_tribes_in_Massachusetts
What was the name of New York City in the 1400s?
Long before any Europeans arrived, the area now known as New York City was inhabited by the Native American Lenape tribe.
I doubt that they had a single, specific name for the exact boundaries of land that now constitute the five boroughs of New York City. Why would they? The five boroughs of New York City did not exist at that time. Since they had no reason to think of the land that is now the five boroughs as a single entity, they would not have given it a single, specific name. They had no reason to assign the same boundaries to their land as the Europeans would in the future.
The Lenape name for the general region -- which includes what is now New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, northern Delaware, and the southeastern part of New York State (the Hudson River Valley and New York City) -- was, "Lenapehoking."
Their name for the Island of Manhattan was "Mannahatta" or "Manahata."
They called the area now known as Brooklyn, "Canarsee," and today there is a neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn called Canarsie.
"Jameco" was their name for the area of Queens that is now known as the Jamaica neighborhood. The Rockaway neighborhood also got its name from their word for the area, which apparently sounded like, "rack-a-wak-e."
The Lenapes called The Bronx, "Rananchqua," while other Native American tribes called it, "Keskeskeck."
The Lenapes called Staten Island, "Aquehonga Manacknong" and/or "Eghquaons."
How do you say 'bear attack' in native American?
There are over 200 different tribes of Native Americans in North America. Each one has its own distinct language. There is no single Native American language.
