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Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
Mazama temama (Central American red brocket) [citation needed] Menhaden (Brevoortia and Ethmidium) forage fish: Algonquian: A blend of poghaden probably from Abenaki or Penobscot, and an Algonquian word akin to Narragansett munnawhatteaûg, derived from munnohquohteau ("he fertilizes"), referring to their use of the fish as fertilizer. [160 ...
Orthographically they are represented differently in word-final position as opposed to word-internally. In the final syllable of a word the long vowel is followed by word-final nh to indicate that it is nasal; the use of h is an orthographic convention and does not correspond to an independent sound. The examples in the table below are from the ...
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Okeechobee County – from the Hitchiti words oki (water) and chobi (big), a reference to Lake Okeechobee, the largest lake in Florida. Osceola County – named after Osceola, the Native American leader who led the Second Seminole War. Sarasota County; Seminole County – named after the Seminole Native American tribe.
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Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montaukett and Shinnecock) is an Algonquian language formerly spoken by indigenous peoples in southern present-day New England and eastern Long Island.
This was at a time when American missionaries were working to use the Cherokee syllabary as a model for writing Liberian languages. [18] Another link appears to have been Cherokee who emigrated to Liberia after the invention of the Cherokee syllabary (which in its early years spread rapidly among the Cherokee) but before the inventions of the ...