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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 do you spell hello in apache?
Apache was not a written language. Few Native American languages had any written form, although there were some common symbols used, mostly imitations of physical shapes such as trees, rivers, and mountains.
I'll see you later in choctaw?
In the Choctaw language, there are letters they do not use. They also do not use English slang. To say, â??Goodbye,â?? you will use the phrase, â??Chi Pisa lachike.â?? This translates to, â??Iâ??ll see you soon.â??
How do you say 'a lonely wolf cries to the moon' in Cherokee Language?
asola dodwe falishta modeinawa tokenae hitau
What is grace in Native American language?
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
- 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
- Yupik, Central
- Yupik, Central Siberian
- Yupik, Pacific Gulf
- Yurok
- Zuni
How did Europeans change the Native Americans' language?
There were, and are, so many cultures and languages in North America and the history of interaction covers 500 years so this is a difficult question. In general, in the long run, contact with Americans meant the loss of native languages. At times this was part of a official government policy such as the "kill the Indian, save the man" idea and the Indian boarding schools. It was even forbidden to speak native languages in places.
At other, mainly earlier times, it was more an effect of the larger numbers of Europeans and the relative lack of immunity to European diseases. Also, most American cultural attitudes meant few troubled to learn the complicated sophisticated languages that they contacted.
In the Pacific Northwest, small pox killed 40-70% of many villages in the 1860-80s. Those that remained were traumatized and lost many aspects of their culture. Many times groups moved together that only had English as a common tongue. Other times, the American government forced unrelated people together and English became the common language. Trading with Americans became more and more important in many places and English was the common language for that.
In some places native based lingua franca developed that became the native language for even non-natives. At one time this was the case in Washington, Oregon and B.C. This was also true in the Canadian Metis areas.
Some languages borrow heavily from languages they contact, others do not. English is one that borrows. Navajo is one that borrows very little and happens to be the native language remaining with the most speakers. It is hard to say why but it is hard to borrow word and fit them into Navajo grammar. There are only a handful of borrowed words in Navajo. In other places, like California, huge population losses having to do with the Spanish policies meant that many native languages had mostly been replaced by Spanish by the time the Americans arrived.
Even today, in border towns to Native lands there is a great deal of hostility to native languages being spoken in public. This is common in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, and South and North Dakota. The "English only" movement is popular in Arizona, which is one of the States with the largest number of today's native speakers. So the attitudes against native languages persist to this day.
Which is last language to appear on the language panel of any Indian banknote?
Urdu. Languages are listed by Alphabetical order.
What is the Navajo word for remember?
"Ã�éjÃlniihgo" means "to remember it" or "remembrance. "Bénáshniih" means "I remember." The common root is "niih."
to remember : énáshniih
to remember a series of events or names: nibééhéshniih
Áhóót'įįdígíí bénááshnii' --- "I remembered what happened."
What does the word Delaware mean in Native American?
Nothing, because it is the name of river named after the English Lord de la Warr, a governor of the Jamestown colony. The English gave the name Delaware to the tribe after this river.
The Delaware tribe call themselves Lenni Lenape, meaning something like true people or first men.
Most of the tribal names used today are not the real names of the native groups, but names given them by other tribes or by white men.
An Absarokee is a member of a native Sioux people from between the Platte and Yellowstone Rivers.
Why did the Native Americans call Kentucky as such?
It was white settlers who called the area "Kentucky", because they could not pronounce the Iroquoian name for the area.
This was probably a Wyandot (Huron) word meaning "plains" or "grasslands"; another alternative is Wyandot kentahteh, which means "tomorrow" (the lands which the Wyandots planned to occupy in the near future).
How many words are in the Indian language?
There is no such thing as "the Indian language" but it's a general rule that for any language on earth, it's not possible to count the words, because there is no universal definition of what a word is. But most estimates place the number of words per language at between 40,000 and 160,000 words.
Note: English is an exception. It has the largest number of words of any language in the world, estimated at 170,000 to 250,000 words. No language has more words than English.
Does the Zuni word 'koko' have anything at all to do with 'Kokopelli'?
The term kokopelli is really a Hopi word, not a Zuni one, but it has been adopted into Zuni mythology. The meaning of kokopelli is unclear; perhaps it is from the Hopi name of another god (Koko) plus Hopi pelli, a type of fly.
In Zuni the term koko is often applied to katchinas in general, so it could be said to be loosely connected with kokopelli.
What does the name Many Horse translate into to Choctaw?
Lawa sobah. (Meaning, 'an indefinite number of large hoofed animal'). This is the closest translation I know.
WAIKIKI (hawaiian) Note: there are MANY Native American languages, not just one, so it is more proper to ask for the translation of a word into a PARTICULAR Native American language, not just "Native American."
What were the chief characteristics and accomplishments of the Aztecs?
Chief characteristics of the Aztecs were they were very religious, and they were violent and ready for war at anytime. Human sacrifices to their gods were common. Some of their accomplishments included the Chinampas, which were floating gardens, they also developed a system of education for their children, and they invented a game called ollama which is similar to soccer.
