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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 arrowhead?
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
What was one consequence of the widespread disease that killed many Native Americans?
The loss of ancient tribal traditions and languages, as well as the reduction in their ability to wage war.
The Pilgrims/settlers were able to stay in abandoned villages and occupy traditional hunting grounds and fishing areas.
What does welcome mean in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.
But there is no such language as "Indian".
What native American word means Ontario?
Ontario is an iroquoian Indian word. It came from A Mohawk name meaning beautiful lake. Mohawks were not tha only native people to live in this region though.
What is the Choctaw Indian language word for garden?
Since gardens in the modern sense were never part of Choctaw native culture there is no term in the Choctaw language that means "garden". The nearest is ossapa, a cultivated field for growing food. Hashuk abusha is a hay field.
What does inhuman mean in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.
But there is no such language as "Indian".
What's the Navajo word for belt?
In Navajo the word for belt is sis. A traditional Navajo belt of leather with silver conchos sewn on it is called sisŁigai.
It is believed that the native Americans came over land and ice that formed a bridge between Alaska and Siberia or 2. by some boats.
What is the Navajo word for trap?
You do not specify the kind of trap you mean. In Navajo a "booby-trap" or man-trap is dineh-ba-whoa-blehi. An ambush is khac-da. Navajo and Zuni people used pit traps for hunting animals; tye-nde is "pits where animals fall in".
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What do native American kids call their mother?
In Western Apache: "shimaa", which literally means "my mother"
What does Minne mean in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages. But there is no such language as "Indian".
What is a native american baby called?
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.
What does serrano mean in Indian language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages.
But there is no such language as "Indian".
What is the Native American word for family?
There have been many thousands of native languages in the Americas, each with a different word for "family". Just a very few examples from North America are:
Natick................................weechinnineummoncheg (his family)
Menominee.......................tepe:naw
Algonkin/Algonquin...........-ote or -kamik (in compounds), or ijinowin
Cayuga..............................gahwajiyade (matrilneal family)
Oneida...............................kahwa·tsíleˀ
Lakota...............................tiwahe (immediate family), tiyoshpaye (extended family)
The language spoken is certainly Crow, but it is obviously being used by people who have only learned the phrases from an instructor, not native speakers. The war chief "Paints His Shirt Red" does not sound like a Crow, even though he speaks Crow words - the accent and pronunciation is all wrong. The character was played by Joaquin Martinez, a Mexican actor (why, when there must be many genuine Crow actors?).
On the other hand the "Flatheads" (really Interior Salish) are genuine and proficient Salish speakers, although the "wedding song" they perform is really a funeral song since they did not have "wedding songs" in their culture.
Despite its many faults the film is a fairly good representation of life in the mountains at the time; one glaring error is the completely inaccurate "Crow arrow" shot at Johnson early on by Paints His Shirt Red, which is nothing at all like any genuine Crow arrow.
What is the Chippewa word for white man?
The Ojibwe/Ojibwa/Chippewa call white Americans gichi-mookomaan, meaning "big knives". This refers to the swords carried by early American military forces and the Blackfoot term for white Americans has a similar meaning.
What do the words Tate and Iye mean in the Sioux Language?
The stories say that in the beginning there was no direction in the world. The four sons of Tate or "Wind," also known as the Four Winds, wandered alone across the earth during the day at random.
It is said that Wohpe was sent to earth in the form of a falling star by her father Skan to meet with Tate at his lodge. Once on earth, it is also said that Wohpe took on the appearance of a beautiful woman. As a result of this meeting between Tate and Wohpe, Tate was said to have established the four directions for his sons being, (Eya or West Wind, Yata or North Wind, Yanpa or East Wind and Okaga or South Wind).
Lakota Myth by James R. Walker, Edited by Elaine A. Jahner. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1983
