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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 soul separates from personality?
In Lakota the word for "soul separates from personality" would be Taku Skan which means Spirit.
What does the native american word meegwech mean?
Migwetch or miigwetch is the Ojibwe word for "it is too much" - it is generally used for "thanks".
Movies and tv have portrayed native americans as?
The portrayal of native Americans in the media has changed over time, but for the period 1920 to 1970 there was a definite racial prejudice, especially in Hollywood films. This may have reflected a much wider prejudice. One famous American director was asked why he never used genuine natives to play the leading characters in his western movies - he replied that "audiences dio not want to see ugly people up there on the screen".
White American actors, Mexicans and others were regularly cast in the speaking roles of native Americans, with Navajos generally taking all the supporting roles (even when they were portraying Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche or anything else) - the women's hairstyles are a give-away.
In some portrayals, such as "Last of the Mohicans" and "Drums along the Mohawk" native Americans are seen as bloodthirsty savages. In others, such as "Cheyenne Autumn" they are downtrodden, peace-loving victims of white aggression.
Neither portrayal is accurate.
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s more "accurate" portrayals were produced, but even these are far from the truth. Dances with Wolves is full of detail errors, some of them glaring, yet it was billed as being "completely accurate".
At least genuine native American actors and actresses are now being given lead roles and speaking parts - even if they have no knowledge of their own tribe's traditions and appearance; a typical example is that they forget to remove their eyebrows, as almost all historic native Americans did. Such traditional things are today sadly forgotten.
Is there a 2 syllable Native American word for the name Sky Eyes?
There is actually no such language as "Native American". 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 does cochiti mean in English?
After making a couple of phone-calls out to the Cochiti community in New Mexico, here's what I was told: you pronounce it with the accent on the first syllable (CO-ch' tee), and in the Keres language, it refers to a home or a community. It seems to have been an old Spanish word at one time, but internet claims that it means "forgotten" are false.
How do you say father in chippewa?
If you are speaking to (or calling) your own father you say dede (day-day).
"My father" is nindedem.
"Father" is oosimaa.
What is the Algonquin translation for the Wampanoag-given name Big Fish?
In the Wampanoag dialect of the Algonquian language family (also called Massachusett, Wôpanâak or Natick), the term for "fish" in general appears to be nammos, plural nammask. This would correspond with the general Algonquian word nam-, "fish".
The Wampanoag word for big, large or great is massa-, missi- or mishe- as a prefix, so Big Fish would be massanammos.
How long did it take for Sequoyah to build the Cherokee language?
Sequoyah definitely did not "build the Cherokee language". It was around for many hundreds of years before Sequoyah was born.
Sequoyah came up with a written syllabry to be used for writing the language, based on the writing used in American books and newspapers.
What is the word spear 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 Indian words start with the letter E?
Eno was a Native American tribe. They lived in North Carolina.
What does Native American word Kemah mean?
Local Texas tradition says that it comes from a Karankawa word meaning "facing the wind".
This is impossible to verify since the Karankawa people became extinct before 1860 and their language was not studied or recorded in detail. The only source for about 100 words of the language is a Mrs Alice Williams, who had lived among the Karankawa and learned some words; she recorded that the word for wind was ba'.
What words mean comfort in the 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 Navajo word for two dogs?
łééchąąʼí is the word for "dog"
naaki is the word for two.
naaki łééchąąʼí --is "two dogs"
Nouns often don't pluralize is Navajo because the way the verb conjugates indicates that there is one, two or more than two.
What would the word dog runner be in Sioux language?
Shunkah Iyahnkahpee is the word for Dog Runner in Lakota.
What is the Navajo word for no?
The Navajo word for no is dooda.
nda = "no";
ndaga = "no";
doo < sentence> da = also used for negation
How do you say bird tail in the 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".
How do Native Americans get their names?
Different tribes do things differently, and many have more than just "one name" (technically you most likely have 3 (First, Middle, Last) or 4, depending on nick-names) and Native practices are much the same. For example, I currently have about 7 names.
Evenki is not "Indian" in any sense of that word. It is a language spoken by native ethnic peoples in Russia, Mongolia and China.
What languages were spoken by Karankawa Indians?
Very little is known about the Karankawa or about what language they spoke. The tribe was not studied while they were still around.
The Karankawa language is the extinct, unclassified language of the Texan coast, where the Karankawa people migrated between the mainland and the barrier islands. It was not closely related to other known languages in the area, much of which are also poorly attested, and may have been a language isolate.
About 200 words are preserved, collected in 1698, 1720, and 1828; in the 1880s, three lists were collected from non-Karankawa who knew some words.
What does jee mean in the Indian language?
Jee can mean "yes" and is also used as word of respect after name or elders.
What languages are spoken by Chickasaw Indians?
Today most Chickasaw people speak English.
Historically they spoke Chikashshanompa’, called "The Chickasaw Language" in English. As of 2018, about 70 people still speak it.
It is a Native American language of the Muskogean family. It is agglutinative and follows the word order pattern of subject–object–verb (SOV). The language is related to Choctaw.
What does pah 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".
How do you say approve in the Lakota Sioux language?
In Lakota the verb meaning "to approve" is hechetula or yasuta.
What is Liam 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".
