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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 say Big in seneca Indian language?
The Seneca language, like many native American languages, uses verb forms more often than simple adjectives. Instead of "big" you say "it is big" - gowanâh. This also means great or important, as in nadi gowanâs = the great ones (chiefs).
This is clearly closely connected to the equivalent Cayuga word for "it is big" - gowanęh
What is the English to native American translation for frank?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages. You would need to specify which one you are talking about. Side note: the name Frank won't have a translation into any of them because its meaning doesn't have a word in any Native American language (It means "Frenchman").
What tribe name would mean enemy of cultivated fields?
That is a garbled and incorrect reference to the origin of the word Navajo. In the Tewa language nava was an old word for cultivated field and hu meant the mouth of a canyon - so navahu was cultivated fields in the mouths of canyons. It does not mean "enemy of cultivated fields".
What is the native American translation for berry?
There are many hundreds of native american languages in North, Central and South America and an equally huge number of words meaning berry - far too many to quote them all.
Just a few in the languages in north America are:
Ojibwe......................................miin, miinens, editeg
Miliseet.....................................mins
Naskapi....................................min-
Delaware..................................min
Powhatan.................................muskimmins (huckleberry)
Arapaho....................................bÃÃbinoot
Cheyenne.................................mene
Choctaw...................................bissa
Cherokee..................................udatanáhi
Navajo.......................................didze
Apache......................................duhtsa
Arikara (Sanish).........................naáni'Is(buffalo berry)
Lakota.......................................wathokecha, waskuyecha
Hidatsa......................................makata
Sahaptin (Yakama)....................ts'its'umslÃ
What is the native American translation for the word Massachusetts?
The name of the state of Massachussetts derives originally from the native people of that region, now called the Massachusett tribe. Their language is called Natick and the name consists of 4 elements:
- misshe (great, large, big
- wadchu (mountain or hill)
- -s- (diminutive)
- -ut (locative)
This was therefore originally said misshewadchusut, meaning at the big hill (country) and was a local place name for a specific locality and community - not the name of a state. Early European explorers mangled this into Massachusett and then Massachusetts.
What is the Choctaw translation of the word 'thunder'?
The Choctaw terms for "thunder" are hilohah or tasah. A sharp clap of thunder is hilahah tusa.
What is the native American word for carrot?
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
Is Kelsey a word in Native American?
It could be a word in one of the 700+ Native American languages, but it would be unrelated to the English name.
How do you say hello in Oneida Indian?
Sekoli or Sheko : li depending on the tribe and location or who you're speaking to. I don't know the propers of it, but I hope this helps.
What is a Native American word that starts with the letter O?
The Oneida Tribe is a Native American tribe in central New York State. It begins with the letter O.
What is the Native American word for Connecticut?
Connecticut derives from a place-name in the local Mohegan, Pequot or Paugusset language. It was originally con-atuk-ok, meaning "at the long river", where the -ok ending indicates a locative or place name.
What does native mean in Native American?
This means that native Americans live here and are not from somewhere else. Like a native habitat which is a place where something is a home.
How does the American Indian movement feel about the word squaw?
Squaw is considered a pejorative, meaning the female sexual organ.
What was the name of the Chumash language?
The language of the Chumash people is called Chumash. There are or have been six Chumashan languages (different versions of Chumash).
They are:
- Northern Chumash (Obispeño or Tilhini)
- Island Chumash
- Purisimeño
- Ineseño (also spelled Inezeño), now called Samala by those hwho speak it
- Barbareño (now called Shmuwich or Šmuwič)
- Ventureño (now called Mitsqanaqa'n)
What is the Choctaw translation of the word brother?
there are 3 tongues to choctaw -Hictuc
-Hac-tan
-Opi-naw
that might be Iracoi tho
What are some simple words in the Shawnee language?
Shawnee is one of the Central Algonquian languages, related most closely to Sac, Fox and Kickapoo. It has only 4 vowels (a,e,i,o, which can be either long or short) and 13 consonants (p, t, tsh, k, ', th, sh, h, l, m, n, w, j).
Historically, the Shawnee people and language were often called "Shawano" by white Americans. Both words derive from the eastern Algonquian word meaning "south".
A few "simple" words are:
ni mene............................I drink
ni meniele.........................I dance
neawai..............................I thank you
peshalo.............................take care
weshshi............................good
haiha!................................I am sorry!
hina...................................then
nishi...................................two
kwanakike.........................years
woonewa'hi.......................he saw them
nitkwa'ma..........................[she is] my sister
noskima.............................[he is] my brother
washi.................................so
wentashi............................they returned
menethiki...........................island
gisika..................................fast
yuluma wipekwa hakwiwena...........these blankets are grey
nanapi................................sometimes
k'kakile lenawegi................turtle clan
pelethi' lenawegi................turkey clan
Showanoaki........................Shawnees (literally "south men")
hokima'ki............................chiefs
shishipe kawe....................the duck dance
takwa..................................bread
peki.....................................much
wapagi................................morning
wipi......................................arrow
nipi.......................................my arrow
kakwa..................................porcupine
What Native American language was used as a code by the US during World War 2?
Navajo Answer #2:
There were more than one tribe used by the US Military in WWII, although the Navajo was made popular by movies, the tribes were: # Meskwaki - North African theater: 1941 # Comanche - 4th Signal Company - European theater # Basque - Asian (Pacific) theater - May 1942 (abandoned for lack of personnel) # Navajo - Asian (Pacific) theater - 1942 Also please note that the Cherokee were the first "Code Talkers" used in military conflict - WWI (September 1918) 30th Infantry Division - Second battle of the Somme.
Adolf Hitler knew about the use of these "Code Talkers" in WWI, so he sent 30 anthropologists to learn Native American languages before the outbreak of WWII.
