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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.

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What is the Navajo word for mat?

A mat for sleeping is : yaatł'oh

The tł' sound is very hard for English speakers to pronounce. You need to hear it start saying it. It is a glottalized tł sound. That is a bit like a tl sound but the l is aspirated as in Welsh. Some English speakers hear it as kl but it is different. The double a means it is held longer than a as in father. The final h is pronounced.

The Navajo used woven wool rugs more than mats so there are many more words for those. They didn't have much of a mat weaving culture. Many people still weave wool rugs today however.

What is the Navajo word for Juniper?

Gad is the word for juniper.

juniper wood is dilk'is

juniper berry is gad bididze' or gad bidzidze'

juniper bark used for fiber is: azííh

What is the Navajo word for spirit?

To be spirited in Navajo is: bíínáíí

It is a verb in Navajo so you have to congujated it as to who the actors are 1st, 2nd, 3rd dual and plural, 4th etc. Also there are modes and aspects in Navajo.

The marks above the vowels mean high tone.

ii is said like in "bee"

a is as in father.

What did the kootenai Indians wear?

The men wore buckskin shirts , legging , breech clothes and moccasins . The women wore underclothing , buckskin , dresses and moccasins .They wore legging during the winter months . They also wore beads . Important warriors wore feathers on their head.

What languages are spoken by Seminole Indians?

Almost all of the Seminole people speak English as their first language, but their 2 native languages are:

  1. The Mikasuki language (also Miccosukee, Mikisúkî or Hitchiti-Mikasuki) is a Muskogean language spoken by around 500 people in southern Florida (190 native speakers as of 2018).
  2. The Muscogee language (Mvskoke in Muscogee), also known as Creek, Seminole, Maskókî, or Muskogee, is a Muskogean language spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Florida, by 5000 people as of 2018.

How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans?

They treated them badly and they forced them to become Roman Catholic.

- They were forced to work in mines, ranches, and farms.

- They had to pay taxes (encomiendas)

- Bartolome Las Casas (a priest) tried to reform the ways of the Spanish conquistadors and the colonists, but he was unsuccessful.

The Spanish ruled the Natives' area and they took the gold and silver from them.... The Spanish also took many Natives as their slaves back with them.

Many tribes were decimated by European diseases such as smallpox. Those that survived were enslaved, forced to convert to Catholicism, taken from their homelands, and trained to be "civilized" Spaniards.

Snow 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
  • Barbare

How do you say butterfly in some Native American languages?

it's kamama in Cherokee

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Butterfly in just a few of the native languages of the North American continent:

Mi'kmaq.......................mimikej

Abenaki.......................mamijôla

Maliseet......................amakehs

Arapaho......................níh'ootéibéíhii

Cheyenne...................hevávâhkema

Blackfoot.....................apo'ni

Naskapi.......................kwaakwaapisiis

Ojibwe........................memegawansi or memengwaanh or waapoone or menengaw

Mohawk......................tsiktsinonnawen

Shahaptin (Yakama)....walakwálak

Navajo.........................k'aalogii

Lakota.........................kimimela or kimimila

Tlingit...........................tlelu

Aztec (Nahuatl)............papalotl

Pima.............................yak'imali

Hopi..............................kalug

What is the word healing 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

What is the Native American word for many spots?

There is no language called Native American. There were more than 1,000 different languages and dialects used by Native Americans. You will have to be more specific. Cherokee, Algonquin, Seminole, Navajo, Apache, Sioux, Creek, Cheyenne or Winnebago?