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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
What does Brenda mean in Native American language?
Brenda is a Norse/Scandanavian word that means "sword" or "Torch". Brenda is also a Gaelic/Irish name that means "little raven" or "beacon on the hill". It is a form of the male name, Brendan. Since it is a name, Brenda would be the same in any language.
What is Cherokee translation for beautiful mountain?
In Aniyawiya Cherokee the word for mountain is odalá and beautiful is uwoduhi (literally: he/she/it pretty). The phrase uwoduhi na odalá means "that mountain is beautiful".
How do you say I love you my wife in Native American?
You would have to be more specific, as to which one of the 4,000 languages you are interested in.
What does amio shuk mean it's in Cree?
It certainly doesn't look like Woods Cree or Maskwachis Cree - most modern orthographies show Cree having no "u" or "sh" sound and the combination "io" is similarly very strange.
The Cree verb amew means "it spawns" (speaking of fish).
The word âmî is an expression of pity or sympathy, but can also mean "dear one".
The element shuk has no similarity to anything in any Cree dialect.
What resulted from the encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans?
When the Spanish came in contact with the native Americans they had a strict policy and goal in mind before even arriving. Their "requerimiento," or requirement, was that the natives must convert to Christianity or be attacked. Thus they killed many natives who did not cooperate.
Definitely not.
Some native languages are relatively straightforward to learn, once you get used to having different sounds than are used in European languages. Others are extremely difficult and highly complex languages with many compound word-phrases and composite elements.
As an example, the Dine languages used by the Apache tribes and their cousins the Navajo are some of the most difficult and complex languages on the planet, with a large variety of noun classes including "animate", "round object", "long, stiff object" and "granular object". Very simple verbs in Navajo may translate into many words in English; for instance, the verb si' means "to cause a hafted object to move".
An example Navajo text demonstrates the complexity of the language:
Ashiiké tʼóó diigis léiʼ tółikaní łaʼ ádiilnííł dóó nihaa nahidoonih níigo yee hodeezʼą́ jiní. Áko tʼáá ałʼąą chʼil naʼatłʼoʼii kʼiidiilá dóó hááhgóóshį́į́ yinaalnishgo tʼáá áłah chʼil naʼatłʼoʼii néineestʼą́ jiní. Áádóó tółikaní áyiilaago tʼáá bíhígíí tʼáá ałʼąą tłʼízíkágí yiiʼ haidééłbįįd jiní. "Háadida díí tółikaní yígíí doo łaʼ ahaʼdiidził da," níigo ahaʼdeetʼą́ jiníʼ. Áádóó baa nahidoonih biniiyé kintahgóó dah yidiiłjid jiníʼ....
In the Crow language of Montana, there is nothing primitive in the term Awaxaawaxammilaxpáake ('Mountain People'), or in the Crow version of the Lord's Prayer:
Min-upguá, akmakukuré danashé izishíu;
andibabazéze máre híi;
ba-an-da-nas'-dó-díu makukuré,
arakóte amé áken kuh karakotíi.
Maré mapam-barú sua hinné mapé mirikiú
míru baskotáo arakavirét bavíavuk,
Dih maré arakiverétta mirikiú:
arakavía maré diazíssa:
bagavía gagúa maré hizíssa.
Kótak.
What American Indian language did Michigan get its name from?
The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water".
What is the pronunciation for the Navajo word dinissin?
Díníssin -- to have faith in it (a religion, belief, cure). The root is zin or sin- to acr with the mind.
"T'áá Naabeehó binahagha' t'éiyá díníssin" --"I have faith in the Navajo religion."
The first two i are high tone and pronounced like in "bit" in English.
The last i is a low or regular tone.
Di -nis -sin , high high, low tone.
Here is some of the conjugation for neuter imperfective:
Díníssin, dínísin, yidísin, jidísin, díníilzin, dínóhsin
What native American word means prairie?
There is no one "native American" language, so there is no one word- there are dozens of words.
How do you say cat in Powhatan?
You say 'cat' as " bobcats" in Powhatan and the name should be referred to during any inquiries.
There is no one "Indian language." Tribes spoke hundreds of languages all across the Americas, some related and some not.
For instance, in Lakota, welcome is Tanyan Yahi.
Welcome in Dine Bizaad (traditional Navajo Language) is Yah aninaah.
How many different major cultures of Native Americans existed on the American continent in 1500?
Major cultural differences are designated geographically, such as: Southeastern, Plains, Northeastern, and Coastal. (There ARE more)
Did native Americans have a mace as a weapon?
War clubs (not maces) were used by almost all native American groups across the North American continent. These clubs are termed puggamaugun, which is the name used by Algonquian woodland tribes.
This weapon generally had a round, biconical or egg-shaped stone head, with a groove pecked around its circumference. It was firmly attached to a wooden handle with wet rawhide wrapped around both the grooved stone and the handle - this shrank on drying to form a hard, permanent join.
At first the handles were quite short, but when the Plains tribes obtained horses they made their war clubs much longer in order to use them from horseback.
The links below shows a typical war club and another image of a stone head with a pecked groove around it.
What is the definition of TONKA.?
Tonka, in the Sioux language, means "great". It is also a toy brand now owned by toy manufacturer Hasbro and consists mainly of trucks, cranes, bulldozers and other wheeled vehicles. The toy brand name is taken from the name of a lake in Minnesota -- Lake Minnetonka ('Great Water' in Lakota/Sioux). Tonka is also a South American bean with an aromatic seed used for flavoring.
What is the native American word for clean?
In Tsalagi, the Cherokee language, the word for "clean" is udanvgalvda. It is pronounced "ooh dah nuh gah luh dah." (It isn't as difficult as it looks.) However, my brothers and sisters from other tribes speak different languages and they have different words. I'm certain they can help with this. There is no ONEindigenous word for anything because our tribes speak so many different languages. I can only speak for my own people and language with certainty.
How do you say small but mighty in native American?
There is no "Native American " language. Several million people belong to separate tribes with their own languages. Name a tribe and if the language still exists your question can be answered.
What is the Cherokee Indian name for mom?
Without the proper font it cannot be typed here, using the English keyboard "U ni tsi" pronounced "Eww-nee-(t)see" the T is almost silent or very short.
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