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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 topics do Native Americans find offensive?
There aren't any subjects that American Indians find offensive generally. No more than any other American. What can be offensive would be the answers or the way the questions are asked, but this is no more than with any other person.
What is tabbaco called 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".
A "Native Word" is a word spoken in the native language of the people who inhabit, or inhabited, the land or area where the word is spoken. For example:
In the Dakota areas the word "Dakota" or "Lakota" is a Sioux word meaning "People" or "People together" (Depending on clan dialect).
The same meaning is applied to other words such as "Cherokee" which is self defined by the Cherokee to mean "People," in fact most tribal names when translated just simply mean "People" or "People together (tribe)" in that tribes langauge.
How do you say my cat or my kitten in Navajo?
In Navajo Kitten is: mósí yázhí.Kitty is: gidí
Cat can also be:mósí,moasi or mósí
My kitten is : shimósí yázhí
The marks above vowels are high tone not accent or stress. Navajo is a tonal language.
Here is a video of the song "soft kitty" sung in Navajo attached as a link
not sure about navajo, but in apache which is closely related, it's shimoosa.
What does the word midnight mean in the local 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 bye 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 Cherokee say William and what is it's meaning?
They pronounce it "W-I-L-L-I-A-M" "Christian" or "European" names like that may mean something in the history of that language, but it is not a Cherokee (Tsalagi) word so it does not mean anything.
How do you say hello in the Menominee Indian tribe?
Menominee has these words of greeting or hello:
- po:so:h (also used for "farewell" or "goodbye")
- ana:maehkatwan
The : sign is used to indicate a long vowel (often the same word with short vowels has a completely different meaning).
How do you say buffalo feet in the Sioux language?
The translation would be pte aasi'oi uin (for a buffalo cow) or tatanka aasi'oi uin (for a buffalo bull); the correct translation is "the hooves of a buffalo" .
How did british actions towards native Americans and American merchant ships incite many Americans?
Britain was responsible for external matters like foreign affairs, trade, Native American affairs. To the colonists, the Stamp Act violated their right not to be taxed without representation; it undermined the independence.
What is the meaning for Nebraska in the oto Indian language?
Nebraska gets its name from the archaic Otoe words Ñí Brásge, pronounced [ɲĩbɾasꜜkɛ] (contemporary Otoe Ñí Bráhge), or the Omaha Ní Btháska, pronounced [nĩbɫᶞasꜜka], meaning "flat water", after the Platte River that flows through the state.
What is the Lakota translation for she brings medicine?
There are many different types of "medicine" in Lakota belief and consequently many different words. There are also many diferent verbs for "to bring", with many different shades of meaning.
For example, pejuta ahiyu can mean "she (or he) brings a healing medicine";
huhuwehanhan pejuta ton means "she (or he) brings forth a special bear medicine for healing broken bones.
What does Idaho mean in Indian language?
From National Geographic-Idaho Settlers believed Idaho was Shoshone for "gem of the mountains." A politician proposed it as the name for what is now Colorado after gold was found there. That didn't fly. But a neighboring territory went for "Idaho"-actually from the Kiowa-Apache ídaahę´, or enemy.
What is the Choctaw Indian language for brightest star?
You might say fichik chito (large star) or fichik luak (blazing star).
Roger Williams.
How do you say our fight in the Indian Language?
There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 different Native American languages. There is no one specific language called "Indian".
Hindi:
our flight = हमारी उडान
Lakota:
our = uŋkítȟawapi
Were there any Native American units in the Pacific Theatre?
Yes, there were. Most noteworthy were the "Navajo Codetalkers," whos Native American language could not be understood by the Japanese. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
What does the native American word zaagido mean?
"Native American word" is a very vague description - if you mean "what does the Ojibwe word zaagido mean?", it is perhaps meant to be the stem form zaagitoo-.
This stem means xxxxx likes it, or xxxxx loves it - there needs to be a suffix attached to the stem to confirm if it is "I like it" or "you like it" or "he likes it" or so on.
Black or African American alone
Meaning of korada or korada order in Indian usage of language?
Korada is a legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline..
What languages were spoken by Waxhaw Indians?
Very little information is known about the Waxhaw and their close neighbours the Sugeree, but some experts claim they were related to the Catawba and therefore part of the Siouan language family. By 1715 the Waxhaw and the Sugeree had been almost destroyed in the Yamasee War and the small remnant joined the Catawba.
Today the Waxhaw are considered to be extinct.
What is a native American word for ripple as in water in Choctaw or Cherokee or Navajo?
Please rephrase your question, Native American covers almost 600 Indian Nations -- there is no one language designated "Native American! What follows are 23 language families into which the languages of North America are divided:
1) Algic Amerindian Language Family
2) Arawakan Amerindian Language Family
3) Athapaskan Amerindian Language Family
4) Caddoan Amerindian Language Family
5) Cariban Amerindian Language Family
6) Chibchan Amerindian Language Family
7) Eskimo-Aleut Language Family
8) Hokan Amerindian Language Family
9) Iroquoian Amerindian Language Family
10) Kiowa-Tanoan Amerindian Language Family
11) Macro-Ge Amerindian Language Family
12) Mayan Amerindian Language Family
13) Muskogean Amerindian Language Family
14) Oto-Manguean Amerindian Language Family
15) Panoan Amerindian Language Family
16) Penutian Amerindian Language Family
17) Salishan Amerindian Language Family
18) Siouan Amerindian Language Family
19) Tucanoan Amerindian Language Family
20) Tupi-Guarani Language Family
21) Uto-Aztecan Amerindian Language Family
22) Wakashan Amerindian Language Family
23) Other Native North American Languages
Atakapa, Cayuse, Chitimacha, Keres, Kootenay, Natchez, Timucua, Tonkawa, Tunica, Yuchi, Zuni
So define what language language you want ripple in.
What is the Apache word for Longbow?
The Apache people have no experience of longbows, since they have never been part of Apache culture and they therefore have no word with that meaning - just like modern Europeans have no word for the alcove in a Japanese house where a small household shrine is kept.
Apache bows are always very short, due to the lack of suitable wood for longbows. Words meaning simply "bow" are:
Apache....................ilh-tí
Jicarilla......................it-kin-chái
How do you say love in narragansett indian language?
The Narragansett, Wampanoag and Massachusetts tribes spoke an Algonquian language known as Natick. In this language there is no pure noun meaning simply "love"; the nearest equivalent is the verbal noun active form womonaonk, meaning a loving or love from the point of view of the lover; or the passive reciprocal form womonittuonk, meaning being loved, loving one another or love from the point of view of the person or thing being loved. These derive from the verb womantam, he loves.
