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The Ouachita tribe became known among English speakers as the Washita tribe; both spellings are transliterations in European languages (French and English, respectively) of the pronunciation of their Caddo name. They may also be known as the Yesito. [3]
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.
A partial table of words comes from Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among California and other Western North American Tribes by Clinton Merriam. This published list covers 400 Ohlone words from interviews of native speakers. The Ohlone words listed are by "phonetic English" pronunciations. [18]
As an official language, any tribal member may communicate with the tribal government in Cherokee or English, English translation services are provided for Cherokee speakers, and both Cherokee and English are used when the tribe provides services, resources, and information to tribal members or when communicating with the tribal council. [40]
The Tlingit language (English: / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ k ɪ t / ⓘ KLING-kit; [5] Lingít Tlingit pronunciation: [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]) [6] is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.
Inepo I hamut ta woman vichu look at Inepo hamut ta vichu I woman {look at} "I am looking at the woman." Word order structures Subject object The following sentences display a variation of the language's structure and the forms allowed. In the following example, we can see an S and an O. This structure of SO is allowable due to a common feature among languages— the verb/ copula to be. 'He ...
Menominee is a highly endangered language, as there are only a handful of fluent speakers left.According to a 1997 report by the Menominee Historic Preservation Office, 39 people spoke Menominee as their first language, all of whom were elderly; 26 spoke it as their second language; and 65 others had learned some of it for the purpose of understanding the language and/or teaching it to others.
Although [tʃ] is a valid pronunciation of the first sound of Jiwere ~ Chiwere, it may mislead English speakers into pronouncing it [tʃʰ]. Similarly, a common folk etymology of Báxoje is "dusty noses," based on the misunderstanding of the first syllable bá as pá, or "nose."