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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 streets are named after Native Americans?
Chances are, if you name a famous Native American, there is a street named after him or her. There are too many to list here.
What is the Native American meaning of the name Billy?
It is a person's name. Native American languages (All 4,000 of them) did not have any words that were not nouns, the name you give here is not a proper noun (within this context).
What does penis mean in Native American?
Native Americans were not a single society with one language, there were many different native American tribes who spoke many different languages.
What languages are spoken by Muscogee Indians?
They speak English. Historically they spoke the Muskogee (Mvskoke or Muscogee) language, which is still spoken by some Creeks and Seminoles today.
Creek language is Mvskoke
First native American Indian reservation?
The Brotherton reservation for New Jersey's Lenni Lenape (Algonquin) Indians
input by Seneca0utlaw - That reservation is located in Medford, NJ
What languages were spoken by Apalachee Indians?
The Apalachee were part of the Muskogean group, meaning that they spoke a language related to Koasati, Hitchiti, Alabamu, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Creek. The Apalachee language has long been extinct.
Here are some Tewa words from a Tewa Indian from the Nambe Pueblo Tribe. My Tribe is located in Northern New Mexico and is home to 650 Tribal members. Our Tribe dates back to the 1300's. My Indian name is Ohuwa Tsideh and I am the former Governor of my Tribe. I began taking Tewa language classes at a young age, but never learned to speak my language fluently. Here are some words that one could say to a young warrior or brave: Uvi toe hiwo man an heda nainbi towa dinkhage nan. Iweda na inbi sendo Yoesi Taadi woemuni heda uvi ayyaa-a won ayingi ami iweda wowatsi woemaani. (You have done your work well and have assisted our people to your utmost; Therefore, may the Great Spirit look upon you and your family throughout your work and life.)
The term Native American refers to the indigenous peoples living in North America prior to the exploration of the continent by Europeans.
What languages are spoken by Mono Indians?
Mono people speak:
- English
- Owens Valley Paiute (also called Mono Language)
Most people speak English. As of 2018, there are less than 25 native speakers of the Mono language left, and about 100 people have some ability to speak it it as a second language.
What is hope in native American language?
It is nice to want to learn and all, but there is no such thing as the language known as Native American (like there is no Chinese, only languages originating from China). There are many different Native American tribes with many different languages. Figure out which one you want to know about and go from there.
What languages are spoken by Hupa Indians?
The Hupa people speak English.
As of 2018, there is also 1 native speaker of the Hupa Language, Verdena Parker. She has been working with researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford to preserve the language.
What does the native American word neechie mean?
It is difficult to know which word and which language you mean - there is an Ojibwe word niijii meaning a male friend, as in the common expression boozhoo niijii (hello my fried). This can sound something like your neechie, but the middle consonant is definitely j.
What does Wisconsin mean in the Native American language?
The name is a European corruption of the local native Miami or Ojibwe name meskousing or meskonsing, referring to the red stone found in that area.
The Ojibwe word for red is misskwa (mihkoowi in Miami), while stone is ahsin (ahseni in Miami), so misskwahsin (Miami mihkoowahseni) = red stone.
What is beautiful angel in American Indian language?
There are hundreds of Native American languages, not just one. Please ask for your translation in a specific Native American language.
How many Native American languages are approved?
The US Federal Government recognizes 59 of the 2,000+ languages spoken; even the government admits there is a problem with their numbers as Tsalagi (Cherokee) has 23 different dialects that renders each one incomprehensible to the other but it is counted as one language.
There are many hundreds of native American languages - thousands if you include Central and South America. Just a few native terms for "baby" or "child" are:
Mapuche: pichiche
Maxakali: kakxop
Xavante: ai'uté
Quechua (Inca): wawacha (or) wawa
Parakan: konomi
Miskito: tuktiki
Maya: al (or) ba'a'al (or) u-ch'ab'
Nahuatl (Aztec): conenetl (or) conetzintli (or) piltontli
Shoshone: ohmaa
Choctaw: vllOsi
Mohawk: owira
Cherokee: usdi
Algonquin: biibiins
Abenaki: chijiz
Maliseet: wasis (or) pileyahsis (or) alohkusis
Mohegan: pahpohs (or) pahpohsak
Naskapi: awaas (or) uschiwaas
Ojibwe: abinoojiins (or) abinoojiiyens (or) biibii (or) boojiinzh (or) oshki-abinoojinh
Powhatan: nechaun
Cree: pêpîsis (or) apiscawâsis (or) awâsis
Blackfoot: issitsimaana (or) maanipokaa
Lakota: hokšicala (or) wakan yeja
Hidatsa: makadista (or) makidaksi
Crow: daaka (or) kaata
Omaha/Ponca: shíⁿgazhíⁿga
Cheyenne: mé'êševotame (or) mé'êševôtse (or) óvohe
Sanish (Arikara): piiraá'u'
Haida: ts'úujuus
Tlingit: t'ukaneyi
Ahtna: sc'enggaay
Gwich'in: bèebii
Han: tr'enin tsul
Kaska: dzedane zuze
Tagish: dunin'
Tanacross: ts'enîin gaay
Tutchone: dunen
Inuit: soruserk (or) utarak
Yupik: anqenkiiyagar
The insulting term "papoose" is used today by a few people for any native American child. Many people also call a baby-carrier or cradleboard a "papoose" - common sense dictates that it can not mean both.
How do say Karlee 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
How do you say grandma and grandpa in Pawnee Indian language?
Pawnee kinship terms (and those of all Caddoan tribes) are far more complex and specific than in modern English. The general terms for my grandmother and grandfather is atika and atipat respectively.
However, to say "your grandmother, "your grandfather" is aKA and aPAT.
What does the name Mark mean in Cherokee language?
In the Cherokee language, the name "Mark" does not have a direct translation, as Cherokee is a unique language with its own vocabulary and structure. Cherokee names often have deep cultural and spiritual significance, reflecting family history, personal traits, or connections to the natural world. It is important to consult with fluent Cherokee speakers or cultural experts for a more accurate understanding of names in the Cherokee language.
How do you say hello in narragansett Indian language?
The Algonquian language spoken by the Narragansett, Massachussetts and Wampanoag tribes is called Natick. In Natick the general term used as a greeting is wunnegin (welcome), from wunne meaning good.
What does indian princess mean in Cherokee language?
Absolutely nothing. The idea of kings, queens, princes and princesses is an entirely European one and has nothing to do with any native American culture.
The Cherokee term ugvwiyuuwetsiati literally means "daughter of a chief", from ugvwiyuhi "chief" and uwetsiageyv "daughter". Such a daughter would have none of the "royal authority" associated with a princess.
