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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 Native American language does Savannah come from?
The name Savannah comes from the English word for the large grassy plain, ultimately deriving from the Taino word "zabana".
What was the benifet of written language for the Indians?
They Could do many things once they had written language like, they were able to write documents of purchase, history, and write other important documents
What languages are spoken by Comanche people?
all 6 apache languages (Jicarilla, Mescalero & Chiricahua (pretty much the same language), Plains-Apache, Lipan, Western Apache) are athabaskan
Most Apaches speak English today.
Traditionally, the Apaches speak southern Athabaskan language.
Apache has at least two language divisions: Eastern and Western. Some consider Chiricahua-Mescalero is a dialect of Western Apache; others consider it a separate language. Some people consider Jicarilla, Lipan, and Plains Apache to be separate languages; others consider them to be dialects of Eastern Apache.
"Other than oral communication, Apaches also intercommunicated with the use of smoke signals from faraway distances. Symbols, pictures , and gestures were used to communicate and establish trade with other tribes"
The Apache Indians spoke the Apache language. It is a branch of the Cree Indian language family.
Can you give me a long list of the red Indian languages?
List of the red Indian language Navajo Cree Ojibwa Cheroke Dakota Apache Blackfoot Choctaw
What does native American word wasichu mean?
It's Lakota/Dakota for (literally) "non-Indian" but often refers to a white person.
What is a native American word for luxury?
Many Native American languages have unique concepts and words that may not directly translate to "luxury" as understood in modern contexts. For instance, in the Navajo language, the word "diyin" often conveys a sense of something sacred or special, which can be associated with luxury in terms of quality or significance. However, it's important to recognize that the idea of luxury may differ culturally and contextually among various Native American tribes.
How do you say flea in mohican?
There is no such language as Mohican. In Mahican the general term for a flea is bubiq; a white flea is wabbiq.
How do you say bug in mohican?
There is no such language as Mohican. In Mahican the word for an insect is jojilos; in Mohegan it is apiq or ocawahs.
What are the native American words for ursa major?
In the Crow language, the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) is called both Ihka Sahpua (Seven Stars) and Iipchalapaachuoo (Pipe Pointer Stars).
In Arapaho the name is téébiicéso'o'.
In Navajo it is náhookõs.
In Ojibwe it is called ojig-anang (Fisher Stars).
In Sahaptin Yakama dialect) it is Xalíishyama (The Wolves).
In Pawnee Ursa Major is raruka΄i:tu΄- a kind of stretcher used to carry the sick or the dead.
What languages are spoken in Cochiti Pueblo New Mexico?
In Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico, the primary language spoken is Cochiti, which is a Keresan language. English is also commonly used, especially among younger generations and in interactions with outsiders. The community actively promotes the use of the Cochiti language to preserve their cultural heritage. Additionally, some residents may speak Spanish due to regional influences.
How many major Virginia American Indian languages were spoken?
The tidewater area of coastal Virginia was occupied by around 30 small tribes known collectively as the Powhatan, speaking a language known today as "Virginia Algonquian" - but it is likely that many different dialects were originally spoken, Since the language became extinct by the 1790s we have very little evidence to form a sound conclusion.
Other Algonquian-speaking people were bands of the Shawnee.
Surprisingly, many other native tribes in Virginia spoke languages of the Siouan family, among them the Manahoac, Monacan, Nahyassan, Occaneechi, Saponi and Tutelo.
Tribes speaking Iroquoian languages were the Meherrin and Nottaway.
So there were three language families represented in Virginia: Algonquian, Siouan and Iroquoian.
How do you say three in Native American languages?
Just a few examples from among many hundreds of native American languages in North, Central and South America for the numeral 3:
Aleut............................qaanku-n, qakun
Eskimo.........................pingayut, pingasut
Haida...........................lGunul
Tlingit...........................nás'k
Eyak.............................t'ú'tlkà~
Tanaina........................tohchke
Kutchin.........................un ihthlog
Chipewyan...................taghe
Sarcee..........................tóók'i:
Hupa.............................ta:q
Navajo..........................táá'
Jicarilla..........................ká-i
Western Apache...........táági
Kutenai.........................qa'lsa
Beothuk........................shendeek
Blackfoot......................niuokska
Cheyenne.....................na'he
Arapaho........................naasau
Ojibwe/Chippewa.........niswi
Algonkin........................nissoue
Shawnee.......................nithese
Miami.............................nisswi
Cree...............................nisto
Powhatan......................nuss
Delaware.......................naxa
Nanticoke......................nis
Mahican.........................nacha
Kwakiutl........................yúdexw
Catawba........................nomnêré
Dakota/Lakota...............yamni
Omaha-Ponca.................dhabdhin
Osage.............................tha'-bthin
Kansa.............................yah-be-re
Crow...............................dáwi
Hidatsa............................ráahawi
Mandan...........................namary
Arikara............................towwit
Pawnee...........................tau'-it
Huron..............................achienk
Onondaga........................àchso
Seneca.............................se~h
Cayuga.............................ahséh
Mohawk............................ahsen
Cherokee..........................tso:i
Kiowa................................phá,.ò.
Chumash...........................masix
Havasupai.........................humúge
Mohave.............................hamók
Yuma.................................xamok
Seri....................................c-ápxa
Tonkawa............................med'ic
Karankawa.........................kaxáyi
Cayuse................................má.tnint
Zuni.....................................hai
Choctaw...............................tochchiinah
Chickasaw............................tochchí'na
Creek....................................tut'tchínin
Totonac.................................t'utu'
Yucatec (Maya)......................osh
Northern Paiute.....................pahi
Shoshone...............................pahi
Comanche...............................pahi-ti
Ute..........................................paiini
Hopi.........................................pahyom
Pima.........................................vaik
Nahuatl (Aztec)........................eyi
Mixtec.......................................úní
Zapotec.....................................shone
Yanomami..................................prukatabo (three is the highest named number in the Yanomami language)
What does Alexis mean in the Cherokee Language?
Alexis is not a Cherokee name, so has no specific meaning in the language. The name Alexis comes from Greek. It means Protector Of Mankind.
What did Indians use to protect canoes from water?
Since canoes were always of wood they did not need to be protected from water (wood floats all by itself). In the eastern regions birch or elm bark was used, or logs were hollowed to make dugouts.
The stitched seams between sheets of bark would be sealed with a mixture of charcoal and pine pitch (the sticky sap of pine trees), which hardens to form waterproof joints. This also gives a pleasing contrast between the pale bark and the dark brown seams.
You cannot translate European names into a Native American or First Nations language, as they have no meaning to translate. Native names always have a meaning, an example being my name; Tikibish, meaning spring water. If you were to enter your name into a language converter and translate it into ANY language, it would always sound like Micheal.
What does the name Alyssa mean 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 billy 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
