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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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A few words in the Modoc language, which is no longer spoken today:
moowat'aakknii.............people from the south (the Modoc name for themselves)
hiswaqs........................man
sn'eweets.....................woman
'ambo...........................water
waq lis 'i........................how are you
maqlaqs geeni...............Indian land
goos.............................tree
p'as..............................food
lac'as............................house
l'ayn'a...........................mountain
lilhanks.........................deer
s'abas...........................sun
What is the native word for love?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. 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
Who is Arturo Rotor for dahong palay?
sebio - is a thin and weak
merci
tia binay -
carmeling
lourdes
milio, kiko, anita, tonio, pacio- is assigned tia binay's to each place.
nanay - the mother of sebio
ambo
-katie
I don't know the Author but I found this
native American boy whose father leaves him blindfolded and alone on a tree stump overnight as a test of boys courage
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage? His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harms. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!
Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him. If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
How do you say Midnight in Cherokee?
You do not; this form of "Time concept" does not exist in the Tsalagi language - it is either "Night" or it is "Day."
What is the 7 songs of ibong adarna?
The seven songs in the Filipino epic "Ibong Adarna" are titled "Aladdin," "Manila," "Alibaba," "Rachmaninoff," "Brahms," "Ravel," and "Rachmaninoff and Brahms." These songs were written by National Artist for Music, Lucio San Pedro, to accompany the mythical bird's song.
What is the Native American word for Tiffany?
North American tribes would not have had any use or want for the word "Tiffany." We concentrate on Mother Earth and all things living within it from our Creator. Any modern day word, especially one that represents materialism or a status symbol, would not exist in an indigenous language except as a generality (perhaps as a useless or excessive item). There could be a combination of words but it could become complicated-and it would not mean "Tiffany." It would mean something like "White Man's excessive need to show off his wealth."
If one is named "Tiffany" the pronunciation can be altered to "fit" a language so to speak--but it is still a foreign word to any indigenous language.
What is the Lakota word for moose?
each native langauge is very different from each other
i am a plains cree from northern canada
my native name is buffalo man
cree translation is
pes koo ka knee miss toes es
piskoikane mistos
hope you can use that
good journeys
The most used name for buffalo is "most important meal of the day" just like breakfast for human beings. Thank you. get more info at wikipedia.org/buffalo/ :D
What does Canada mean in Indian language?
"Canada" does not have a specific meaning in an Indian language as it is a proper noun and the name of a country. However, different Indian languages may have different phonetic versions to refer to Canada. For example, in Hindi, it is commonly referred to as "Kanada."
How do you say you're cute in any native American language?
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 lakota word for abundance?
Abundance is an English term synonymous with "plenty" or "profusion". Lakota has the equivalent term ichakizeshniyan, meaning literally "not suffering the lack of anything" = having plenty or having abundance.
The Lakota word ota means many, much, a lot, plentiful; waota means many things, plentiful things.
What is the words for hello in the assiniboine language?
The Assiniboin language is called Nakona and is closely related to Lakota, Nakota and Dakota (the languages of the Sioux tribes).
In greeting someone you say Doken ya u? (how are you?), Doken ya shka? (how are you?, Dya ya u? (are you well?).
How do you say snake in Seneca language?
The Seneca word for a garter snake is shano:ya:ene'
The word for a blacksnake is shaya'tes
The word for a green snake is ukeu'tsa'kéá'
The word for a rattlesnake is uhsikwêôt
The word for a water snake is hanôtö
The general term for snake is ushaista'
What is the native American word for leopard?
"Native American" refers to all the native peoples of the Americas, from Alaska and the Arctic Circle to southernmost tip of South America; there were many thousands of languages spoken historically by these people and a huge number of words for "bear". In addition, many tribes had specific terms for black bear, brown bear, grizzly bear and so on.
Just a few examples meaning "bear" in general unless otherwise stated:
Inuktituk (Eskimo)......................nanuq (polar bear)
Aleut...........................................tanĝaaĝim (polar bear)
Tlingit..........................................s'èek
Ahtna..........................................sos
Menominee..................................awaehsaeh
Natick..........................................mosq, masq, mashq or moshq
Delaware (Lenape)......................mak'hk or machk
Algonkin.......................................makwa
Shawnee.....................................m'kwah
Mahican.......................................muxq
Powhatan....................................amonsoquath
Mi'kmaq........................................muin
Blackfoot......................................kiaayo, kyai, kaiyi
Cheyenne....................................nahkohe
Arapaho.......................................nóókox or wox (bear); nonóókunéseet (grizzly)
Cayuga........................................gahnyagwaidagęt (polar bear), hnyagwai (bear)
Mohawk.......................................ohkwari'
Mandan........................................mato
Omaha.........................................mon'chu
Hidatsa.........................................nohpitsi
Crow.............................................daxpitse'
Lakota...........................................mato
Kalispel (Flathead).........................smgeichen (grizzly)
Kiowa............................................'anha'dei
Navajo...........................................shash
Apache..........................................sush
Jicarilla...........................................shash
Cherokee......................................ya'na
Choctaw........................................ni'ta
Zuni...............................................e'lu
Arikara (Sanish).............................kuúNUx
Yakama (Sahaptin)........................anahoy
Aztec (Nahuatl)..............................tecuanotl (black bear)
What Native American words start with the letter y?
There are hundreds of different Native American languages.
Some 'Native American' words that start with the letter Y are:
Arapaho:
yein = four
yoo3on = five
Dakota/Lakota:
yamni = three
Choctaw:
yvnnvsh = buffalo/bison
Muskogee Creek:
Yvhiketv = sing
yvnvsv = buffalo/bison
yvnvwv = cheek
yopo = nose
Navajo:
Yiyą = eat
Yoo'į = see
Yidiists'a' = hear
Hopi:
yöngösona = turtle
Yaqui:
yeka = nose
City in illinois meaning garlic fields?
Chicago comes from the Miami word shekaakwa meaning wild garlic, wild onion or skunk smells (not garlic fields).
What languages are spoken in Nunavik Quebec?
Aside from English and French, here is a list of minority languages spoken in Nunavik, along with the estimated number of speakers (2017):
- Inuktitut (11,000 people)
- Spanish (80 people)
- Cree languages (70 people)
- Other Native American languages (30 people)
What are the language percentages in Honduras?
Spanish -- official language: spoken all over the country.
Other languages: Ch'orti', Garífuna, English, Mískito, Lenca, Pech, etc.
Alaska's Mount McKinley is also known by this native name?
It is called Denali or the Great One.
Numerous native peoples of the area had their own names for this prominent peak. The local Athabaskan name for the mountain, the one used by the Native Americans with access to the flanks of the mountain (living in the Yukon, Tanana and Kuskowim basins), is Dinale or Denali ("the High One"). To the South the Dena'ina people in the Susitna River valley used the name Dghelay Ka'a (simplified to Doleika), meaning "the big mountain", while the Aleuts called it Traleika.
Native American word Kansas means what?
Kansas is named for the nomadic tribe that lived in that area; the Kaw or Kanza people (People of the south wind).
