# Does Anyone Have Some Knowledge Of Native North American Languages?

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This list draws on the North American examples found in Wiktionary.  
Sky:  
_yáá_ - Apache  
_hayumu_ - Arawak  
_galvloi_ - Cherokee  
_shotik_ - Chickasaw  
_tomoobi_ - Comanche  
_kaj_ - K’iche’  
_musikisq_ - Malecite-Passamaquoddy  
_ilhuicatl_ - Nahuatl  
_yá_ - Navajo  
_giizhig_ - Ojibwe  
_ilhuicac_ - Pipil  
_auanda_ - Purepecha  
_ŦI¸ŦEȽ_ - Saanich  
_p’ȍpə́na_ - Taos  
_vinajel_ - Tzotzil  
_mush-hàkw_ - Unami Lenape  
_ka’an_ - Yucatec Mayan

River:  
_c’ena’_ - Ahtna  
_iswa_ - Catawba  
_uweya_, _amayi_ - Cherokee  
_abookoshi_ - Chickasaw  
_pia hunuubi_ - Comanche  
_sîpi_ - Cree  
_deh_ - Dogrib  
_kuuk_ - Greenlandic, Inuktitut, Inupiaq  
_stó:lō_ - Halkomelem  
_ʔahqʰa_ - Kashaya (cf. Latin _aqua_)  
_ɢoɢe_ - Klamath-Modoc  
_stúləkʷ_ - Lushootseed  
_ātōyātl_ - Nahuatl  
_pamptuckquah’_ - Nanticoke  
_tooh nílíní_ - Navajo  
_joke_ - Nottoway-Meherrin (no joke) (cf. Finnish _joki_)  
_ziibi_ - Ojibwe  
_yeokanta_ - Powhatan  
_STO,LU,_ - Saanich  
_thiːpi_ - Shawnee  
_héen_ - Tlingit  
_taksitai_ - Tutelo  
_sipu_ - Unami Lenape

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