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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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How do you say hello in Cheyenne Comanche Apache and Sioux for my Cub Scouts?

Cub Scouts may have extreme difficulty in pronouncing many native words, particularly those in the Comanche and Apache languages. Good luck with pronouncing these native greetings:

Cheyenne..............................pave-esheeva (good day); ne-toneto-mohta-he? (how are you?)

Comanche..............................marúawe (hello to one person); marúawebukwu (hello to 2 people); marúaweka (hello to a group).

Apache (White Mountain dialect).......dǫw'dęh (how are you?)

Lakota Sioux..........................tanyanyahi yelo (I am glad you came)

The first Cheyenne expression is said pah-vay-eh-shay-eh-v. with the final a whispered. The Lakota expression includes two nasalised "a" vowels indicated by the superscript n.

How many Native American ballerinas are there in the world?

There are actually five famous American Indian ballerinas. The most famous is Maria Tallchief . She had a sister who also danced by the name of Marjorie Tallchief. There are also Moscelyne Larkin, Yvonne Chouteau and Rosella Hightower, who passed away recently at 89. There are probably a number of Indian ballerinas out there now because of those five.

What is the Indian translation of the word teacher?

There are over 300 Native American languages so you need to ask for a particular tribe. There is no one " Indian " language.

How many dialects in the world?

A "dialect" is a local version of a language. For example in British English there are many local dialects, some of which are dying out or have become obsolete: Scots dialect, Norfolk dialect, Liverpool dialect or Scouse, Tyneside dialect or Geordie, Birmingham dialect or Brummie and many more. Each dialect will include words not found outside that locality, such as the Geordie word "hinny" as a term of endearment or the word "haad" (hold).

No scientific study has ever been carried out on the number of regional dialects throughout history and throughout the world; simply coping with the major languages is difficult enough.

What is the Shawnee translation for heart?

ki-te-hi--heart (pronunced "kee-teh-hee")

from Wa'apaheelo (Soaring White Eagle) 1/4 Shawnee

What does American get their. language. from?

Great Britain, as the people of America first came from there to be the colonies.

How do you know when to use feminine or masculine designations?

According to the gender of the object or person is a guideline for when to use feminine or masculine designations.

Specifically, English generally functions as a gender-less language in that either a neutral term or one form of feminine and masculine possibilities predominates. In gender-ful languages, femininity or masculinity may be obvious in terms of people. But it may not be obvious in terms of concepts, objects and things.

What is the word for younger sister in Sioux?

In Lakota, a woman calls her younger sister mithan; a man calls his younger sister thankshi

What is the latin word for burn?

The Latin word for bun is comburet. Combustum and combustio can also be Latin translations for the word burn.

What languages are spoken by Tlingit people?

Today they speak American/Canadian English, but their own native language is part of the great Athapaskan/Na-Dene language family - very distantly related to Navajo and all the Apache dialects.

What continent did Native Americans originally come from?

Native Americans crossed the land bridge to North America from Asia. So technically they are from Asia.

What is the Native American word for share?

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 official Indian language?

There is no such thing as an "official Indian language". If you are asking what the languages of India are that have any kind of official status, they are:

Assamese

Bengali

Kokborok

Chhattisgarhi

English

Gujarati

Hindi

Santali

Kannada

Konkani

Maithili

Malayalam

Marathi

Meiteilon (Manipuri)

Mizo

Nepali

Oriya

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Urdu

What Connecticut mean in Indian language?

There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.

But there is no such language as "Indian".

How do you write welcome word in all Indian language?

There are more than 700 Native American languages and more than 750 languages in India. You will need to be more specific.

What is the native American translation for cloud?

There is not one "native american" language or even one language family. There are languages that are as different as Chinese, English and Arabic.

Cloud in Navajo (Diné bizaad) is:kʼos

The k' sound is a glottalized k sound. Hold your breath in your throat and say k then os (as in toast)

What is the Cherokee Indian language translation for the name Brenda and for Jean?

Brenda and Jean would be the same in Cherokee since they are a person's name. Brenda is of Old Norse origin and Jean is of English/Scottish origins.

What is an important form of everyday resistance to white dominations among Native Americans?

Where to even begin. Although much of this will make no sense to you, a few things (stories, or whatever) are: * Only a white man needs a clock to tell him he is hungry. * Only a white man needs a clock to tell him its morning and the sun is up / night and the sun is down. * Only a white man needs a calendar to tell him its (summer, fall, winter, spring). * Only a white man thinks that "Life" means forever / white men cannot see past the tip of their own noses. * Only a white man will steal from his own children. There is also a strong resistance against white religions because these religions preach that "Any and All Sins" are forgiven by a simple belief that they are, this has entitled white men to commit every one of these sins (with zealous abandon) because of this belief. White religions are also religions of convenience, when their "gods" are needed they call on them and others belief in them, but when they commit sins against that god they shun his existence.

This same conduct is best exemplified by a man who leaves on his wedding ring, until of course it is a problem for him; so he hides it in his pocket.

As a quick view of white society. One people, One Voice, One goal.

What is a Sipapu?

A Sipapu is a Hopi word that refers to a small shallow hole is the kivas floor. It is meant to symbolize a portal used by ancestors to enter this world and to remind them of their origin on earth.

What does the name nefatari mean?

The name nefatari means queen, royalty, honor, and trustworthy.

How do you write the name Danny in Cherokee?

It is written as: D-A-N-N-Y as Cherokee does not contain European names; also the name DANNY does not translate to any known word in Tsalagi (Cherokee).