Can you tell me the name of diffrent Native American Languages and diffrent Tribes?

Question

Maybe post some websites or good books on those languages? Can be from anywhere in the Americas? Please if the name of the language is diffrent from the tribe, include the tribes name?

Answer 1

There's this place called the library?

Wikipedia has a section on Amerind languages.



Most of the books mentioned on line by other posters will probably be in university libraries so your best option is a trip to the nearest university library and check out their linguistics section?

Answer 2

wisconsin-HoChunk, Menomonee, Oneida, Potowatomi, Stockbridge-Munsee, and a bunch of Ojibwe's

Answer 3

It's impossible to keep up with their names. The tribe that I call Micmac, call themselves M'ikmaq, which they pronounce "meegmah".

It's strange that a stone-age people, with no alphabet of their own and whose name was spelled phonetically, by white invaders, can tell us how to spell and pronounce words.

Answer 4

There were about 1000 different languages spoken in the Americas at the time of Columbus from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to Point Barrow.

Here is a list of (mostly living) languages in the Americas, sorted by country:  http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index....

There are some good websites for individual languages, but the Wikipedia articles tend to be the best:  www.wikipedia.org

Here are some outstanding books on the subject:

Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America:  http://www.amazon.com/Languages-America-...

Ives Goddard, The Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17, Languages:  http://www.amazon.com/HNDBK-INDIANS-Hand...

Shirley Silver & Wick Miller, American Indian Languages: Social and Cultural Contexts:  http://www.amazon.com/HNDBK-INDIANS-Hand...

Willem Adellar & Peter Muysken, The Languages of the Andes:  http://www.amazon.com/Languages-Andes-Ca...

R.M.W. Dixon & Alexandra Aikhenveld, The Amazonian Languages:  http://www.amazon.com/Amazonian-Language...

Jorge Suarez, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages:  http://www.amazon.com/Mesoamerican-Langu...

SHOSHONI LANGUAGE

But since you want information about specific languages, I will suggest SHOSHONI.  Here is Idaho State University's Shoshoni website (Shoshoni is taught there as one of the languages):  http://www.isu.edu/~loetchri/

Here's another Shoshoni language site (I'm not sure which Shoshoni group maintains it):  http://www.native-languages.org/shoshone...

And another that has information from various Shoshoni bands:  http://www.shoshonidictionary.com/SDP_LI...

Here's a good grammar of Shoshoni (with a dictionary in the back):  Beverly Crum & Jon Dayley, Western Shoshoni Grammar:  http://www.amazon.com/Shoshoni-Occasiona...

And this book has a CD with the songs being sung by the Crums:  Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, & Jon Dayley, Newe Hupia, Shoshoni Poetry Songs:  http://www.amazon.com/Newe-Hupia-Shoshon...

And here's another good grammar of a slightly different dialect (if you can get a copy with the accompanying cassette that is best):  Drusilla Gould, Introduction to Shoshoni Language:  http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Shosh...

(The Crums and Ms. Gould are native speakers of Shoshoni.  I know both Beverly and Drusilla personally and they are wonderful teachers.  Jon Dayley is an outstanding Anglo linguist at Boise State University.  I wrote the first grammar of Timbisha, but his is better.)