Indian Language 101

[WhoMe]

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We should all do our part in saving our languages.

It would be great and rewarding if the people on Powwows.com would exchange some basic tribal language with each other.


For instance:

How do you say, "a greeting?" (hello).

How do you say, "until we meet or see each other again?" (good bye).

How do you say, the equivalent of "thank you?"

What does your tribe call itself in your language and what does it mean?

[Pare Bowlegs]

Language.

Grettings - Tempunayetv
Hello - Hencsa (or hensci)
Thanks - Mvto
See you later- Cencehecetvs

As far as our tribal name goes, we're made up of more than a dozen bands/tribal towns, that came from the Mvskoke (Creeks). My Band is Rewahle, pronounced Thlewahle. Seminole is Semvnole. The older folks also referred to themselves, as a whole, as Ekvnvfvskvlke - Sharp land people; the Florida peninsula.

In another thread about "cats", we say pose (pou-see), and kate (kah-tee).

Pare-

[WhoMe]

Re: Language.

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Pare:

Thanks for sharing.

"Indian and First Nations people need to understand each other in order to unify in a collective voice for ALL our common good." - WhoMe 2004 -

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Just off the top of my head I have learned to say a greeting in these indigenous languages, (pws.commers, correct me if I'm wrong):


Ojibway/Anishnabe - Boozhoo
Dakota and Lakota - Hau' coda/cola and Waste (Pronounced "Wash-tay)
Crow - Sho Da'a Chi
Hidatsa - Dohshah Medigoot
Cree - Donsah
Potawatomi - Bo zhoo
Menominee - Posoh
Ponca - Aho' Kahgee
Pawnee - Noah
Choctaw - Hawleto
Cherokee - Osiyo
Navaho/Dinei; - Ya'at eeh
Zuni Pueblo - Keshee
Taos Pueblo - Heeyahho

[Pare Bowlegs]

For Choctaw, I believe its Holito.

[WhoMe]

Originally posted by Pare Bowlegs
For Choctaw, I believe its Holito.

Pare:

Thanks for the correction. Sometimes I can't even spell in English!

[amo]

WhoMe

All Brown noser(er)


Big Time

[White Powwow Dancer]

Hi
I know some Ojibwe Here
Ishkoday = fire
Mukaday Makwa for Blackbear
Chi Migwetch for big thank you
Migwetch for thank you.

[BurBz]

Re: Re: Language.

Originally posted by WhoMe
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Navaho/Dinei; - Ya'at eeh

Dinei

DINE':D

and i think its ya-ta-hey for all the non navajo's Jk

[she_dances_life]

Ya'at'eeh is hello.
hagoone or hagoshii, that'll do or see ya
Ahehee' is thankyou. (sounds like ahyihe')
we are called the Dine. don't know how to highmark. but it sort of means the holy ones.

[WhoMe]

Re: Re: Re: Language.

Originally posted by Burberrilish
Dinei

DINE':D

and i think its ya-ta-hey for all the non navajo's Jk

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Burberrilish:

As I told Pare, "Thanks for the correction. Sometimes I can't even spell in English!" You're right on the spelling. Like I said, it was all off the top of my head. I don't know how to spell in Indian. I just try and come close.

"White people, white bread tastes' good huh?" Is this from personal experience??? ~ Too much! *L

[BurBz]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Language.

Originally posted by WhoMe
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"White people, white bread tastes' good huh?" Is this from personal experience??? ~ Too much! *L

btw..its not bread lol... :Tongue


*LMAO*

[aknative]

Thank you in Yupik is pronounced Goy-ya-na. (Not spelled that way.):hey!:

[ojibwaysweetie]

I ain't puttin my language up here them ojib wannabees will copy it and tell other ojibs they learned it from an ojibway grandmother. :p :p

ennit!

[ABENEWA KWE]

Originally posted by ojibwaysweetie
I ain't puttin my language up here them ojib wannabees will copy it and tell other ojibs they learned it from an ojibway grandmother. :p :p

ennit!

:Chatter aya nokomis

[Tibiki Kinew]

http://www.tribalfires.com/language/nlanguage1.shtml

have fun!!!!!!!!!!