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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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Who is Arturo Rotor for dahong palay?
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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
What is the author or story name about a native American boy whose father leaves him blindfolded and alone on a tree stump overnight as a test of boys courage and boy doesn't know dad was with him?
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The story you are referring to is "The Talking Eggs" by Robert D. San Souci. It is a retelling of a Creole folktale in which a young girl named Blanche is rewarded for her kindness towards an old woman by receiving magical eggs that help her escape her cruel family.
How do you say Midnight in Cherokee?
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In Cherokee, you would say "Asgaya digalvwisdanehi."
What does the Indian word nkweniss mean in The Sign of the Beaver?
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"nkweniss" is not an Indian word in The Sign of the Beaver. It seems to be a typo or an error. The book is set in Maine among the Penobscot Indians, so if you provide the correct term, I can help you with its meaning.
What is the 7 songs of ibong adarna?
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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?
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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.
How do you say free spirit in the Indian language?
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Sheema (caveman) LoL in clan of the cavebear there's s scene at the end of the movie were the lead (Darylll Hanna) says "Oran SHeema" Which accoring to caption means "good spirit".
At least (i think) i'm thinking correctly on it. please correct: if I'm wrong.
I'm trying to find a good name for a (gonna stay small (Under 7lb) puppy. She's white, small & looks like she ran into a very solid, very parked car. LoL Pug side i suppose.
What is the Lakota word for moose?
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Mukwa, Muckwa, Muckwah, Mukwah, or however you choose to spell it means "Big Bear".
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Answer:
The Lakota word for a bear is mato [pronounced mah-to].
The first answer gives the general Algonquin word for bear (not "big bear" as incorrectly stated) - makwa and variations: Shawnee m'kwah, Ojibwe mukkwah, Cree musquoi, Pequot maikwa, Narraganset maske.
Lakota is a Siouan language, not an Algonquian one.
What does Canada mean in Indian language?
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"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?
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There isn't a single Native American language, as there are hundreds of distinct indigenous languages spoken across the Americas. To say "you're cute" in a specific Native American language, you would need to specify which language you are referring to.
What is the lakota word for abundance?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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"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?
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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
What is the Lakota translation for Wind in his hair?
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Pȟehíŋ Otȟáte (see movie "Dance With Wolves" for reference).
What is the Native American word warrior?
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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
City in illinois meaning garlic fields?
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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?
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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?
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Spanish -- official language: spoken all over the country.
Other languages: Ch'orti', Garífuna, English, Mískito, Lenca, Pech, etc.
Where does the Mississippi River lead to?
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It's mouth is at the Gulf of Mexico (New Orleans, LA)
Alaska's Mount McKinley is also known by this native name?
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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.
