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Yes, most of them do. I have a friend that lives in New Mexico and is part of a Native American Indian tribe. She speaks English but has a accent. Many of the Indians were born learning their tribal language and have learned English over the years.
Your question is in the present tense and the answer is that most native groups in North America use the English alphabet, or a modified form of English, to write their own languages. The Navajo, for example, produced a Navajo language newspaper (Ádahooníłígíí) in the 1940s and 1950s using modified English alphabet to represent the very unusual sounds found in Navajo.
The Cherokee leader Sequoyah devised a syllabary (not an alphabet) based on English letters in the 1820s; previously the Cherokee, like most North American native Groups, had no writing system. The Cherokee Phoenix (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ) newspaper was published regularly from 1828 to 1934 using this syllabary - it his more recently been revived and is today published via the internet. This syllabary was heavily influenced and even inspired by the English alphabet, so it can not be considered purely native and indigenous.
Writing is defined as recording the sounds of a language. This excludes all the pictograms and mnemonics used throughout the Americas by native peoples, since they may record the sequence of ceremonies or songs, historic events, people and locations but they do not record language.
The only native American groups to develop genuine and indigenous writing and written languages before the influence of white Europeans were in Mexico Central America, where Aztecs, Mayas, Olmecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs and others used glyphs to represent the sounds of their languages.
The term "native American" refers to all the original inhabitants of Canada, the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Brazil and all the many countries of South America. In total they spoke many thousands of languages, plus many different dialects of those languages - the number is huge.
An added complication is that Hawaii (not originally anything to do with the Americas) became one of the United States in 1959 - overnight its original native population became "native Americans" speaking another, totally unrelated, Polynesian language.
Many of these languages are now extinct and a few more are yet to be discovered among the remotest tribes of the Amazon and Peru.
It is estimated that there are more than 700 Native American languages still spoken today. Here is a partial list of languages native to North America (including creoles):
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yupik, Central
- Yupik, Central Siberian
- Yupik, Pacific Gulf
- Yurok
- Zuni
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What is the Native American Indian symbol for sleep?
Native Americans communicate through language and not symbols. Find out which tribe specifically and ask what the word is in their language.
How did the Native Americans influence the English language?
Native Americans have influenced the English language in many ways. Native American words have found their way into military communications. Native American words are also used to name cities, and roads in the United States. For example, the Wampanoag trail in Rhode Island.
Why and how did Champlain make friends with the native Americans?
He learned their language and respected their ways to get them to be on his side.
According to Census 2000 what percent of Americans speak both their native language and another language fluently?
9.3 percent
What does penis mean in Native American?
Native Americans were not a single society with one language, there were many different native American tribes who spoke many different languages.
What is the Comanches written language?
The Comanche, like most native Americans, had no written language of their own.
Did the Spanish learn the Native Americans language?
no
How many Native Americans use their native language?
around 90,000 or so.
What is the Native American symbol for wife?
Native Americans speak in language not in symbols.
Did the English and the Native Americans have the same language?
No. The English spoke English, and the Native Americans spoke various languages native to North America.
What is a Cahuilla?
A Cahuilla is a member of a group of Native Americans of southern California, or their native language.
What is the burrowed language for the word maize?
Native Americans ;d
What was the first language of Puerto Rico?
Tanio by the Native Americans and then Spanish.
Why are Americans speaking English and not German?
The native language in America is English.
What are the culture traits between Spain and native Americans?
language and economy
What is the Native American Indian symbol for sleep?
Native Americans communicate through language and not symbols. Find out which tribe specifically and ask what the word is in their language.
How did the native Americans learn sign language?
Native Americans learned sign language through intertribal communication and interactions with deaf individuals. Additionally, trade networks and shared symbols and gestures fostered the development of sign language as a means of communication between different tribes. Over time, sign language became a valuable tool for facilitating communication and understanding among diverse Native American groups.
