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Native American Place Names of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press; Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Flexner, Stuart Berg and Leonore Crary Hauck, eds. (1987). The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed ...
American Indian English or Native American English is a diverse collection of English dialects spoken by many American Indians and Alaska Natives, [3] notwithstanding indigenous languages also spoken in the United States, of which only a few are in daily use.
Native American Pidgin English, sometimes known as American Indian Pidgin English (AIPE) was an English-based pidgin spoken by Europeans and Native Americans in western North America. The main geographic regions in which AIPE was spoken was British Columbia , Oregon , and Washington .
In 2005, the Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Northern Paiute and Kiksht in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation schools. [6] In 2013, Washoe County, Nevada became the first school district in Nevada to offer Northern Paiute classes, offering an elective course in the language at ...
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.
In 1969, the Kutenai language was spoken by 446 registered Indians in Canada. [13] As of 2021, Statistics Canada reported 210 Ktunaxa speakers. [14] Referring to the Ktunaxa Nation Council (KNC) Traditional Knowledge and Language program findings, Ktunaxa scholar Christopher Horsethief stated that 24 fluent speakers remain and all are over the age of 65.
The Salish or Séliš language / ˈ s eɪ l ɪ ʃ /, also known as Kalispel–Pend d'oreille, Kalispel–Spokane–Flathead, or Montana Salish to distinguish it from other Salishan languages, is a Salishan language spoken (as of 2005) by about 64 elders of the Flathead Nation in north central Montana and of the Kalispel Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington state, and by another 50 ...
Tipi parts in Cheyenne. Cheyenne is spoken on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana and in Oklahoma.On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in March 2013 there were approximately 10,050 enrolled tribal members, of which about 4,939 resided on the reservation; slightly more than a quarter of the population five years or older spoke a language other than English.