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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
How do you say daughter or granddaughter in Native American?
There is no such thing as a Native American language. Each tribe and sometimes each clan had its own language. You would have to be more specific as to tribe.
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?
How do you say black in different American Indian languages?
Well, I remember my Mother telling me she had a black cat and she named it Cha-muck. I'm sure that's not how it's spelled, but she told me it means black.....I don't remember what tribe it was either...probably Cherokee, but that's just a guess. Sorry I couldn't be of more help :/
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The word "black" in just a few native American languages:
Powhatan.............................mahcatawaiuwh
Abenaki................................mkazawi
Mi'kmaq................................maqtewe'k
Cheyenne.............................mo'kohtavo
Soo'taa'e..............................mo'ohtavo
Sauk.....................................makata
Potawatomi..........................muckahta
Maliseet................................mokosew-
Ojibwe..................................makadewaa or makadewizi
Arapaho................................wo'teen-
Mohegan..............................sukáyu-
Blackfoot...............................sik
Naskapi.................................wiipisiiw
Lakota..................................sapa
Crow.....................................shipita
Catawba...............................awokek or hawok'ktci or hawutkare
Hidatsa.................................sipisa
Navajo..................................łizhin
Apache..................................dilhkih
Sanish (Arikara).....................katiit
Pawnee.................................kaatiit
Caddo....................................hadeekko
Aztec (Nahuatl)......................tliltic or cacatzactli
Yaqui......................................chukuli
Hopi.......................................qömvi
Shoshone..............................duhu
O'odham................................chuk
Cahuilla..................................tulek
Choctaw.................................lusa
Creek......................................estelvste or lvste
Mohawk..................................kahòntsi
Cherokee................................gáhnage
Haida......................................hlgahls
Tlingit......................................tuch'
Which Native American tribe used an irrigation system to farm their crops?
Many Native American tribes used irrigation. Two of the largest were the Cherokee of the east coast and the Hohokam of the American Southwest (Phoenix area).
What is the oldest Native American language?
Your question supposes that all native languages have always remained the same as they are today or were at first contact with Europeans, which is far from correct. Languages evolve over time and it can be shown that the historic languages of native Americans developed from a much smaller number of prehistoric languages such as proto-Algonquian, proto-Siouan, proto-Athapaskan and so on.
This points to all modern and historic Algonguian languages (for example) such as Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Maliseet, Powhatan, Mahican, Delaware, Ojibwe and Cree evolving from a single parent language used many thousands of years ago, before anyone was around who could witness and record it. The same for all Siouan and Athapaskan languages.
One controversial theory says that all native American languages evolved from a single, even older, parent language used in north-east Asia and attempts have been made to show correlations between many of the different historic language groups. One obvious one is the prefix ni- or n- for "I" or "me" which is found in many parts of the Americas.
Since we are talking about a time before written history when no native Americans were writing anything about their languages - and a time before the historic tribal groups had developed and before their languages as we recognise them had evolved - we can only speculate, guess and theorise about the prehistoric origins of native American languages.
What does Christine mean in native American language?
There were multiple languages that Native Americans had just like how there were different tribes. In order to translate Christine one would first have to know which language it was coming from.
What does the name Jacob mean in native american?
#1.} The word is spelled d-o-e-s
#2.} There are MORE THAN 300 Native American languages. You'll need to be more specific.
What is oma in Native American language?
There are more than 300 Native American languages. You'll need to be more specific.
How do you say welcome in cree?
Welcome in Cree (generally as there are a number of Cree dialects including northern, plains and swampy) is: Wachiya
Hello is :Tansi
What is the Native American translation of the word bone?
You would have to be more specific with the actual language you want to know the word in (ie., Sioux, Ojibway, Mohawk etc.) There are many aboriginal languages.
How did Cherokee Indians say hello?
All members of the Blackfoot tribe must also speak English, as they live in the United States. But the Blackfoot tribe also has its own language: the Blackfoot language. Probably your question is: How do you say hello in the Blackfoot language? Hello in Blackfoot is: Oki.
What languages were spoken by Hopewell Indians?
The Hopewell Culture represented dozens of different tribes and languages, but since none of them had any system of writing, there is no information about what languages they spoke.
How do you say wolf in the salishan language?
In Coast Salish the word for wolf is stakaya.
In Kalispel the word for wolf is niamkae, or nshiizin. The prairie wolf or coyote is snkazos.
The Salish folk hero, Small Wolf, is called snchelep in Kalispel.
Did American Indian cultures had no written language until the early 1800s?
In the area that is the US and Canada there was not exactly. There was a system to record symbols for memory aids. In Mexico there was.
In the Northeast, in New England, Mid Atlantic, Great Lakes and Canada, the native people (mainly the Haudenosaunee) used strings of shell beads arranged in belts called wampum as a type of record keeping. The designs and colors made a code that was used as a memory aid. They recorded treaties, laws, religious ceremonies, certificates of authority, historic events, story telling and other things. They could be fluently "read" by those who knew how. They are read right to left like Arabic or Hebrew. They were not used as currency by the Haudenosaunee. That came late when the colonists had a shortage of metal coins.
It is often forgotten that geographically North America includes Mexico. There were several writing systems there. They are: Aztec, Mixtec, Olmec, Zapotec, Mayan, Isthmian or Epi-Olmec, Mixe-Zoquean.
What is the summary of the trail of the green blazer by rk narayan?
"Trail of the Green Blazer" by R.K Narayan is a story about the life of a pickpocket named Raju. When Raju pickpockets a man in a green jacket at a fair his life changes. He felt pity for the man when he found out that he had a son whose mother had died. Raju tried to put the wallet back, but got beaten and put into prison. After 18 months Raju was released from prison and never stole anything again.
How do you say happy birthday in Choctaw?
The correct way to say Happy Birthday in the Choctaw language is Aiattatok Nitak = Birthday and Yukpa Aiattatok Nitak = Happy Birthday.
Many online sites are stating that Chim Afammi Nittak is how you say Happy Birthday. This is incorrect. Chim Afammi Nittak means your year day. Not happy Birthday.
Is there a different spelling for Nancy in Cherokee?
Yes. In the Cherokee syllabary, it would look like this:
Ꮎáá
If you are not able to see these characters, go to "sources and related links" (down below) and download the cherokee font on that webpage.)
What are names for girls and boys in the Taino Language?
You mean "What are Taino names?" and we know that they were relatives of the Arawak people, speaking a Maipurean language. Their population, originally very large, declined rapidly and many scholars take the view that they are racially extinct today, with only mixed-race (mestizo) descendants remaining.
Only the names of male and female chiefs were recorded historically, with the males (cacique) having such names as Amanex, Cacimar, Guacabo, Güaraca, Agüeybaná, Urayoán, Guarionex, Urayoán, Macuya, Mabodomaca, Inamoca and Orocobix.
Female chiefs (cacica) had names such as lguanamá, Anacaona and Casiguaya.
It is likely that the names of ordinary tribespeople were the same or similar to these examples.
How many languages existed in the Western Hemisphere in 1492?
Modern day linguists have estimated that in 1492 there was a range of Native languages that spanned between 2,000 to 2,200. They believe that the differences between them in vocabulary and grammar can be favorably compared to the same differences between English and German. Work to refine the spectrum of these Native languages continue to the twenty-first century.
