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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 noun begins with S and describes someone who might be described as 'a red Indian woman'?
The term is often considered to be pejorative these days, but the word "squaw" was used in the past to describe a Native American woman who was married.
Squaw is an English language word borrowed from the Algonquian languages that means an indigenous woman of North America. The word squaw was used for "indian woman" by the early English settlers in Massachusetts by the early 1600s and was adopted by them from the word squa that the local Native Americans used to mean a young female.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it was widely used as and considered to be derogatory and is now offensive to many Native Americans.
What does hau mean in the native American Indian language?
"The native American Indian language" implies that there is only one, when in fact there are more than 2,000 native languages in the Americas, most of which do not include that word.
In Lakota (the language of the Teton Sioux), the word haucan signify a greeting or hello used only by men (hau kola, hello my friend); it can mean a formal "yes" (hau, mnin kte, yes I will go there); or it can mean "no" in response to a negative question: Hi shni he? - Did he not come? Hau, hi shni. - No, he did not come.
Other native languages (Cherokee, Arapaho, Powhatan, Seneca, Illinois, Pawnee, Arikara, Cheyenne, Tlingit, Maidu, Zuni, Navajo and hundreds more) have entirely different words of greeting and do not use the word hau.
What does the town name Dahlonega mean in Cherokee language?
Cherokee word "taulonica" -- meaning "yellow"' as in gold.
Did Native Americans call their days suns?
The following data is from the archives of the
American Native Press Archives and Sequoyah Research CenterThe year was divided into four seasons of three months each: 1. Ulukohisto, Autumn; 2. Kolah, or Konah, winter; 3. Koge, spring; 4. Kogi, summer.
The year was again divided into six seasons: Ulukohusti, embracing the two moons Notatequa and Tulisti; Kolah or Konah, embracing Tuninoti and Uskiye; Nolatihi, including Unolotani and Nagali; Koge, including Anoyi and Nuwoni, and Kogihi, including Anaskoti and Tehaluyi; Kuyo, embracing Kuyoquoni and Kaloni.
The moons they divided into weeks of seven days each. A week was called Unatotaquahi; and three days of the week had different names, viz.: Unatotaquoski, Sabbath; Unatotaquona, Monday, i.e., the day after Sabbath; and Unatotaquitena, the day before the Sabbath. These three names, however, were not always familiar to all the people. When the observance of the Sabbath was neglected, its appropriate name seems to have been lost among many of the common people, who reckoned their weeks by seven days, calling the seventh Uloquatiika (or Ulumlogwattika) the glorious or excellent day. But that Unatotaquoski was the original name for the Sabbath, appears from this, that the real antiquarians, in speaking of the first appointment of the Sabbath by Yihowah, always expressed it by this name.
The other days (nights) of the week, aside from Saturday, Sabbath, and Monday, they reckoned by the ordinal numbers as third, fourth, &c., from the Sabbath, or three of the week, four of the week, &c. The day, consisting of twenty-four hours, extended from twilight to twilight and was called Susohito. Two such days were called Talitsusohia (48). This day was divided between the light and the darkness; that part including the light was called Unotaquatta, the whole period of light. Two such days were Tutisutotaqutta. The other part, including the whole of the darkness, was called Ulitsotoquotta. Two such nights were called Tutitsulitsutaquotta. The 24 hours again divided into Ika, da, and Sunoyi, night.
These were again subdivided into 1. ----- [sic] sundown; 2.Ikaloke, between sundown and dusk; 3. Alitoska, twilight; 4.Uwohitsita, from the commencement of darkness till 9 or 10 o'clock; 5. Sunoyitlustoti, from 9 or 10 o'clock till midnight; 6. Sunoyi, midnight (the middle syllable strongly accented); 7 ----- [sic]; 8. Ukitsakeyi, cock-crowing and thence till daybreak, i.e., white light springing or rising up; 10. Ikaatiha, dawn; 11----- [sic]; 12. Tikalukga, sunrise; 13. Sunalestoti, the time from sunrise till the middle of the forenoon; 14. Ulutsitiika, near the middle of the day; 15. Ika, (strong accent on the first syllable), noon; 16. Itluistoti, shortly after noon, that is , a period from 12, or noon, till probably about the middle of the afternoon; 17. Usohiyeyi, a period commencing at the close of the above, and extending till near sunset; 18. Tsihnawia, or Tsiunawo, a short period before sunset, when the rays of that planet have lost their force, and the air has become cool.
In short, the Cherokees called their days "moons" not "suns.
What was the Wichita Indian language?
The Wichita (and the Wichita subtribes or bands: Waco, Tawakoni, Taovaya, Tawehash, Yscani and Kichai) all spoke the Wichita language which belongs to the Caddoan group, distantly related to Pawnee and Arikara. The Wichita call themselves Kitikitish, meaning "eyelids tattooed to look like raccoons".
The Wichita language is today practically extinct. A few words in the Wichita language are:
Black......................kaar'iis
White.....................khac
Sun........................saakhir'a
Dog........................kiciyeeh
Buffalo...................néérhir'a
Bear.......................wira'a
Skunk....................niwiic'
Hair........................tiyaac'a
Eye.........................kirik'a
Mouth.....................haaka'a
Why did the native American call Manhattan Manhatta?
The Manhattan area is named after the Manhattan tribe, who were mentioned in an account dated 1609 by Robert Juet (an officer on Henry Hudson's ship). It is originally a place name referring to both sides of the Hudson river, where this tribe had several villages.
The meaning is uncertain but it may come from Munsee Delaware manahatouh, which means "place where timber is procured for bows and arrows".
Give me some English translation of 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 does the word jaguar mean in Native American?
The word jaguar comes into English by way of Portuguese, from the Tupi word jaguara meaning any large carnivore. The compound form jaguarete means "true large carnivore". The Guarani word yaguarete has the same meaning.
Early reports that it has anything to do with "animal that kills with a single bound" were mistaken and false.
Jaguar is properly pronounced jag-wahr.
What is the Blackfoot native American translation of father?
In Blackfoot, as in most Algonquian languages, you must say "my father", "his father", "your father" - there is no separate word meaning just " father".
My father is ni'nah
The Hopi word for river is paayu. This is closely related to the word for water - paahu.
Who translated the bible into Cherokee language?
"Samuel Worcester translated and published the Bible in Cherokee... in Sequoyah's syllabary" (Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, Gibson 65).
What state come from the Indian word for Tinted water?
The Dakota words mini and sota mean "water" and "cloudy" or "sky-tinted", so the answer is Minnesota.
What is bastard 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".
Tehya originates from what tribe?
It is alleged the the word tehya is Zuni for "precious", but there is some dispute about this and it may be entirely fictional, perhaps from some film or book character.
How do you say chocolate 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 Siksika word for black foot?
In the Siksika language (also known as Blackfoot), the word "Siksika" means "black foot".
The name Siksiká comes from the Blackfoot words sik (black) and iká (foot), with a connector s between the two words.
What does the name Tala mean in native American languages?
There are more than 700 Native American languages spoken today. You would have to be more specific.
How were native Americans excluded from American society?
The Native Americans were very important to American History. They were the first people in America. They had to live a very hard life. They made their own weapons and games and more.
Having a separate government, languages, religions, dress, and culture caused the dominant society to isolate the Indian people, or force them to assimilate. "Manifest destiny" gave the immigrants an excuse. Natives today are often criticized or ridiculed for holding to their ancient ways.
History is always written by the victor. There is not total exclusion of Native Americans from history, however their perspectives are not often represented. And perspectives of these Peoples has changed over time.
In the first years of East Coast contact, Native Americans were necessary for the survival of the colonists. There were grave misunderstandings of attitudes of the native cultures because of differences between them and those who came from Europe. As time progressed, tribes became allies and enemies and everything in between. Also, Native Americans are not one people with one culture throughout the contiguous United States.
Often, that which is not understood or considered praise-worthy is excluded from another culture's history except as a cautionary tale.
What does ben mean in indian language?
"ben" in kannada (south indian language) means "back" (a part of body)
How do you say see you later 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 languages are spoken by Zuni Indians?
They speak Shiwi'ma, known as Zuni in English.
It is not thought to be related to any known language. It is one the the less endangered native languages. Most Zuni speak it. There are about 9.700 speakers out of 12,000. There are still some people who only speak Zuni but most are bilingual with English. Becuase it is not related to other nearby languages often in the past people spoke, Navajo, Hopi, Keresan, Tanoan and other Pueblo languages and later on, Spanish.
Shiwi'ma. for more information, go to http://www.answers.com/Zuni%20language
A native American clan that starts with the letter 'n'?
The Navajo Indians
http://inkido.Indiana.edu/w310work/romac/Navajo.htm
The Navajo Indians
http://inkido.Indiana.edu/w310work/romac/Navajo.htm
