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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 did the Native Americans influence the English language?
Native Americans have influenced the English language in many ways. Native American words have found their way into military communications. Native American words are also used to name cities, and roads in the United States. For example, the Wampanoag trail in Rhode Island.
What are the translation of the Inca Heirogliphics into the American language?
The Incas never developed any kind of writing system for their language (Quechua) - certainly nothing that could be called hieroglyphs.
Their only means of keeping records was by means of coloured cords of different length tied together and knotted at specific places to record numeric values indicating numbers of animals, quantities of produce and similar items. These knotted chords were known as quipu - around 200 examples survive today, but in most cases their meaning is lost.
Some people have suggested that the animal and human figures woven into Inca textiles suggest a kind of writing, but there is no clear evidence for this.
The Quileutes are a Native American Tribe residing in Washington state.
If Native Americans came from Asia are there any Asian words found in Native American languages?
I don't know if there can be found any words (because I can't find any dictionary on the Internet of a Siberian language or a Native-American one), that are the same. But there are still some languages in Siberia (Russia), that are part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family, an North-American language family, this could prove that the Eskimo-Aleut languages (and other languages in America) have there origins in Asia.
How do you spell get up in Navajo?
To get up from reclining- ńdiish' nééh
to stand up- yiissįįh
to get up quickly -náhidiishtáád
to get up at dawn- yikáííhdą́ą́'
And many more. Navajo grammar is very complecated to English speakers. The verb changes for first person, second, dual and plural. It often changes to idicate the manner of how it is done. For example : the way you usually do it, randomly doing it and so on.
How many native americans died from diseases?
Some academics estimate that up to 20 million (90 percent) of Native Americans died from European disease and other factors. Smallpox was a deadly viral infection that did most of the damage, although measles and the flu (all of which were diseases to which Native Americans had never been exposed) also wreaked havoc.
What does bear den translate from Native American?
There are MANY Native American languages, so please specify which one you want the translation in.
What American Indian language was primarilly spoken by the Monacan?
The Monacan and Mannahoac people lived north of the Powhatan and were hostile towards them. The original Monacan language, no longer spoken anywhere, is classed as Siouan and is called Tutelo.
What is the Cherokee to English translation of wo-du-ge-hyuj?
The nearest I can trace is the stem u-wo-du meaning beauty, with the form u-wo-du-hi meaning beautiful.
What type of drawings and symbols are on tepees?
That is a subject that can not be answered in the limited space available here - it would take many books to give a complete answer.
Every tribe was different; among most Plains tribes decorated tipis were the exception rather than the rule and around 90% of tipis had no designs of any kind. They were simply the natural cream colour of the hides used to make the cover, with the upper section blackened by smoke from the internal fire.
Among the Crows it was a tribal tradition not to paint designs on their tipis except in very special circumstances - the tipis were left as white as possible in most cases.
Some Plains people used traditional tribal designs (such as the Blackfoot); some designs indicated a medicine lodge or a great warrior with outstanding war achievements; other designs simply recorded particular events, hunts and battles of the past.
Not all tipi decorations were painted; sometimes buffalo tails were sewn all over the outside of the cover in a repeat pattern.
A calumet (a medicine pipe hung with feathers) painted on a tipi might mean that the tipi was the home of a war party leader or a medicine man; stylised horse tracks indicated a warrior who had taken part in raids to steal enemy horses; rows of guns might mean that the warrior had counted coup by taking the guns from enemy warriors in battle.
Among the Blackfoot tribes, white disks represented puffball mushrooms which had celestial connections and were considered sacred. Some tipi designs indicated membership of a warrior society, or membership of a particular clan.
There was no universal interpretation of symbols - each tribe had its own different system for recording war achievements.
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What North American Native American tribe had its own alphabet?
The Cherokee had their own alphabet; the Cherokees called them 'talking leaves'. The Choctaw created their alphabet based on English characters called in Choctaw: Chahta Anumpa Holisso. There are three version of the alphabet: old, linguistic, and a modern. Rev. Cyrus Byington complied a comprehensive dictionary and Allen Wright created the old alphabet. Both created literature and grammar books. Gideon Lincecum, a setter from Georgia, created a 500 page history of Choctaw traditions entirely in the Choctaw language during the 1800s.
How do you say dad 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
What are some words in Bolivian Quechua?
A few words in Bolivian Quechua:
mama................................mother
yana..................................black
puka..................................red
ari......................................yes
mana..................................no
maki....................................hand or arm
q'oñi....................................hot
kuntur.................................condor
llama....................................llama
wasi.....................................house
kachaykukuy........................to run
kutiy.....................................to return
alqo......................................dog
mayu.....................................river
machu....................................old
mach'ay..................................cave
chhiñi......................................bat
runa........................................man, person
unu.........................................water
rumi.........................................stone, rock
inti...........................................sun
What does the name Terry Fletcher mean in the Choctaw Indian language?
Names only have meaning in the language they originally came from. Since Terry Fletcher did not come from Choctaw, then it has no meaning in Choctaw.
If you are talking about Native Americans, then the answer is that prior to contact with Europeans, they did not know Hebrew. After contact, it was unlikely that any Native American even met a Hebrew speaker until at least the 19th Century.
(Today there are some Native Americans who know Hebrew, including my husband.)
If you are talking about India in Asia, Jews first came to India around 500 CE. Jews who lived in India were able to read and pray in Hebrew, but spoke Indian languages in daily communication.
What is an American Indian word for doorway?
In Natick, the language of the Massachusetts, Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes, the word for a door or gateway is squont, squoant or squontam.
What is the American Indian word for water buffalo?
The water buffalo is not native to the Americas, so no language anywhere in the Americas would have a native name for that animal.
Water buffalo are native to the Indian sub-continent and Asia.
Lots of unhappiness for child and parents, often loss of cultural connection, and some education.
How do you say Emily in Native American?
Emily is pronounced about the same in all languages. Also, 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
What languages are spoken by Tongva Indians?
Tongva people (also called Gabrieleño people or Fernandeño people) speak English and Spanish.
Traditionally, they also spoke Tongva language, and Uto-Aztecan language, but that went extinct sometime after 1850. There is a revival plan for the language.
What does the Native American word hurricane mean?
Hurricane comes from the Taino language word for wind.
