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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 is the native American word for sister?
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
How do you say snapping turtle in native American Indian language?
There are around 200 different Native American languages - please pick one and ask again.
What is the lakota translation for the word trust?
Lakota has no noun meaning "trust", the idea is expressed by various verbs with different shades of meaning:
- wachinyekiyA is to trust one's own
- iwachinyAn is to trust someone else to do something
- wachinyAn is to have confidence or trust in something or somebody
- wachinkichiyA is to trust or depend on each other
The noun wowachinye means someone or something that can be trusted.
In all cases the superscript n is used to indicate that the previous vowel is nasalised, much like French.
How do you say tomorrow in native American language?
You have to be more specific but in ojibwa it is "waaban"
What is the difference in the Lakota language between iyótaŋčhila and thečhíȟila?
Both words express the same meaning: "I have affection/love for you".
In certain cases there are gender-specific words in Lakota used by men or women, but this is simply a case of more than one possible way of saying "I love you".
The normal verb meaning "to love" is thehila, but this can only be used in respect of animate objects (it can not refer to a favourite chair, food or garden). The same verb is also written as tecÃhila. The -chi- or -ci-element within this word (thechihila) is an internal conjugation meaning "you" - to say "I love them" would be tewicawahÃla.
How long does it take to build a tipi?
The Youtube video in the link below shows a tipi being erected by three or four people in 52 seconds - but the film is speeded up. In reality it might take 15 or 20 minutes, depending on how many people are involved and if they know what they are doing.
What is a native American translation for smoky?
In the Natick language spoken by the wampanoag, Narragansett and neighbouring tribes you say pukitauoo, from the noun pukut meaning smoke.
What is the lakota word for standing?
In Lakota, the verb nazin (nah-zheen) means to stand. In names of people and places this is used unchanged to mean "................ that stands", as in mato nazin
= standing bear.
How do Native Americans say angel?
There are literally hundreds of Native American languages, but in the most common form of Cherokee, Angel is pronounced Ah-Dah-We-Uh
How do you say excel in native American language?
There is not just one Native American language, there are thousands of them.
What does coyote mean in Nahuatl?
The English word coyote comes via Spanish from the Nahuatl word coyotl, where -tl is the nominative ending for nouns. It refers to the species canis latrans, a small prairie wolf of North America.
What Métis language is derived from Cree and French?
Michif is the Métis ("mixed") language which is derived from Cree and French. The language may be found in northern North Dakota in regard to the United States of America and in Manitoba and Saskatchewan in terms of Canada. About 500 surviving speakers mix borrowed Dene and Ojibway, Cree verbs, and French nouns.
How do you say dance or dancer in any Native American Language?
Native Americans consist of over 500 languages/tribes. Which tribe/nation are you particularly interested in?
In Navajo - al zhish ii (dancer)
What countries speak American English?
Of course, it's United States of America. They're the majority and about only ones who use American English.
What was the first language spoken in the US besides Native American languages?
According to who you ask, it could be Welsh, Norse, or English. Geographically speaking, it was probably English because the other two groups were most likely in Canada.
What is the Native American word for golden eagle?
There are thousands of Native American languages, each would have a different word.
Ignoring the garbage published on those dreadful American "baby name meaning" websites, the real word in the Hopi language is Tseeveyo, meaning a terrible monster that comes to "get" children whose misbehave.
Black foot Indian name for wolf?
If you mean the Lakota sub-tribe of South Dakota called Blackfoot Sioux, their term for a wolf is shunkmanitu tanka.
If you mean the much larger Algonquian Blackfoot confederation of northern Montana, Monitoba and Saskatchewan, their word for a wolf is omahkapi'si.
These two Blackfoot tribes are totally unrelated.
It depends on which religious faith are you associated with. In Islam, there are spiritual healing methods that require certain conditions to be met. For example, if you consider ruqya treatment or have a spiritual adept create a talisman for your specific problem, you need to have sincere and devoted faith in the mercy of the creator, avoid doing certain kinds of things and keep committed to the practices (invocations) that come with certain kinds of spiritual treatment. You may find more info about the Islamic spiritual healing methods on RoohaniOnlineSpiritualHelp (dot com).
How do you spell the word 'peace' in the assiniboine language?
In Hohe Nakota (the Assiniboine language), the word for peace or time of peace is wookiye; in Lakota it is wookhiye.
How do you say mean in native American?
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
Cherokee spelling of Donna is a backward capital J for da, followed by a capital O with a line through the upper middle for na.
How do you pronounce Aho Mitakuye Oyasin?
Mitakuye Oyasin. (Pronounced Mee-tah-koo-yay O-yah-seen, is a Lakota Phrase which means. "We Are All Related")
