Native American Languages

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The aim of this post is to show you all the languages of the Ameridians in North America. Let's have a look!

• Apache Indian Language: Apache is an Athabaskan language, which is divided in 2 languages:
• Western Apache
• Eastern Apache

          The speakers of one language cannot understand the other well. Apache is related to other languages like Navajo or Gwich'in. Let's see some examples of Apache Language:

• góshé: dog
• gah: rabbit
• shizé: mouth

• Cherokee Indian Language: more properly spelled ''Tsalagi'', is a complex language with soft sounds. For example:
• Agehya: woman
• wado: thank you
• Agi'a: eat

       The Cherokee language has a writing system that was invented by the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah. Sequoyah's writing system is a syllabary. That means one character represents each syllable not just a consonant or a vowel.

• The Cheyenne Language:  It is a member of the large Algonquian language family of North America which includes other languages such as Blackfoot, Arapaho, Cree, Ojibwa...There are only 14 letters in the Cheyenne alphabet but they can combine to create some very long words, composed of many smaller meaning parts. 
• Heove: yellow
• Mahpe: water
• Hotame/Oeškeso: dog

Blackfoot Indian Language: Blackfoot, also known as Siksiká, is an Algonquian language, related to other languages like Cheyenne and Arapaho. There is a distinct difference between Old Blackfoot (also called High Blackfoot), the dialect spoken by many older speakers; and New Blackfoot (also called Modern Blackfoot), the dialect spoken by younger speakers.

• Áápi/Ksikk: white
• Sik: black
• Niisito: five

• Delaware Indian Language: This language is also known as the Lenape Lenguages, Munsee and Unami, which are assigned to the Algonquian language family.

• naxá: three
• lënu: man
• hilusës: old man

• Comanche Indian Language: This language is a Uto-aztecan language of the southern Plains  related to other languages like Shoshone and Hopi. Only a few elders in Oklahoma still speak the Comanche language fluently today.
• Hayarokwetu: four
• Mua: moon
• Paa: water

• Sioux/Dakota Indian Language: Sioux language is a Siouan languages of the Great Plains. Dakota and Lakota Indians can almost always understand each other. 
• Wanzi: one
• Wi: sun
• Mini: water

• Iroquoian Indian Languages: Iroquoian languages are spoken in the eastern US and southeast Canada. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. 

• Northern Iroquoian Languages
• Central Iroquoian Languages:
• Tuscarora
• Nottoway
• Lake Iroquoian Languages
• Mohawk-Oneida Languages:
• Mohawk
• Oneida
• Seneca-Onondaga Languages:

• Cayuga
• Onondaga
• Seneca
• Huron/Wyandot
• Laurentian (St. Lawrence Iroquoian)
• Susquehannock
• Southern Iroquoian Languages:
• Cherokee (Tsalagi)

Here you are a lot of information about the Indian Language, hope you enjoyed it!

Bibliography:

http://www.native-languages.org/apache.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/apache_words.htm

http://www.greatdreams.com/apache/Apache-Language.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm

http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/Facts/OurHistory.aspx

http://www.cheyennelanguage.org/

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cheyenne.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/blackfoot.htm

http://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/teacher_toolkit/english/culture/language.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/lenape.htm

http://delawaretribe.org/culture-and-language/

http://www.native-languages.org/comanche_words.htm

http://www.bigorrin.org/sioux_kids.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/famiro.htm