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This is a list of English language words borrowed from Indigenous languages of the Americas, either directly or through intermediate European languages such as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages.
Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi–English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (Hopi pronunciation: [hoˈpiˌikwa laˈβajˌtɯtɯˌβɛni]) [1] is a Hopi–English bilingual dictionary compiled by the Hopi Dictionary Project, a research team based at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
American Indian English or Native American English is an umbrella term for various English dialects spoken by many American Indians and Alaska Natives from numerous tribes, [3] notwithstanding indigenous languages also spoken in the United States, of which only a few are in daily use.
People from out of town pronounce it like the city in Germany: ber-LIN. However, locals pronounce it BER-lin. Boise, Idaho: The city's name is commonly pronounced / ˈ b ɔɪ z i / BOY-zee. However, locals actually pronounce it as / ˈ b ɔɪ s i / BOY-see. [61] Buena Vista, Colorado.
Specific terms can be used to refer to local or regional varieties of AbE, for example Koori or Murri English, Broome lingo and Noongar English. [2] Nunga English is the southern South Australian dialect of Aboriginal English. It includes words from the Narungga, Ngarrindjeri, and West Coast languages, as well as local variations in pronunciation.
Photo album page showing Tłı̨chǫ settlement at Fort Rae. The Tłı̨chǫ (Athapascan pronunciation: [tɬʰĩtʃʰõ], English: / t ə ˈ l ɪ tʃ oʊ / tə-LIH-choh) people, sometimes spelled Tlicho and also known as the Dogrib, are a Dene First Nations people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group living in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Yuchi or Euchee is the language of the Tsoyaha (Children of the Sun), also known as the Yuchi people, now living in Oklahoma.Historically, they lived in what is now known as the southeastern United States, including eastern Tennessee, western Carolinas, northern Georgia, and Alabama, during the period of early European colonization.
The following is a list of the consonants and vowels of the Tongva language as used by the Tongva Language Committee, based on linguist Pamela Munro's interpretation of the fieldnotes of J. P. Harrington. [11] In parentheses is the spelling of the specific sound. There are multiple orthographies for the Tongva language.