List the Native American language you'd choose to learn...

[Kaleva]

if you were inclined to become fluent in one.

[Kaleva]

1. Ojibwe

[rug]

2. Algonquin.

[YankeyMCC]

9. Me too

[mix]

3. Towa

Tanoan language family, spoken only by Jemez Pueblo members.

[foxfeet]

4. Tsalagi.

[Brickbat]

5. Ojibwe, I guess...maybe Navajo.

[NightWatcher]

6. Lakota

[MissHoneychurch]

29. Same here

[darkstar3]

7. Siksika

Grandma was a Blackfoot, so it would be a heritage thing too.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Shawnee

They lived in the area where my family is from. I could imagine that my great-great-great grandfather came in contact with them.

[nolabear]

10. Choctaw.

It's in my heritage and is complex. I do have a friend who speaks Navajo and it sounds wonderful.

[Kali]

11. Nahuatl

[Xipe Totec]

12. You probably know a few words of Nahuatl already

Tomatl - Tomato

Ahuacatl - Avocado

Coyotl - Coyote

Chilli - Chile

And here are a few more that may be unfamiliar:

Xochitl - Flower

Scuintli - Dog

Coatl - Snake

Tenoch - cactus

[Kali]

25. yep

lots of words in Mexican Spanish don't seem to be in European Spanish/English dictionaries.

[Odin2005]

24. The Nahutl "tl" is the coolest consonant ever!.

Voiceless dental lateral affricate for teh WIN!

[XemaSab]

27. A mi tambien

:D

[kentauros]

13. Does "Native American" include Hawaiian?

:D

[Kaleva]

14. I guess it would.

[kentauros]

16. I'm getting the impression you're only reluctantly saying so

;)

No problem. I'm just not very interested in most Native American culture; Polynesian draw me in more. And having just finished "Three Cups of Tea" about Greg Mortenson's work, I'd rather learn Urdu, Pashta and Farsi :)

[Kaleva]

17. Sorry. It's just hat I've had a long day and I'm not coming across as enthused.

I do think it'd be very cool if you did learn Hawaiian!

[kentauros]

18. Okay, no problem.

Hope your evening is better :)

I wouldn't mind learning Maori as well, but that might be more due to my girlfriend being a citizen of New Zealand ;)

[Kaleva]

15. I think it'd be interesting if several of us did make an effort to learn a native American language.

[Odin2005]

19. Ojibwe!

I have several relatives that are part Ojibwe.

[Demoiselle]

20. Navaho.

To honor the code talkers of World War II. And because I love the Tony Hillerman novels.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. Mi’kmaq

[SeattleGirl]

22. Chippewa, as my husband's family on his dad's side belongs

to that tribe.

[KamaAina]

23. E ola mau ka 'olelo Hawai'i!

(may the Hawaiian language live forever)

True, the Hawaiian people are Polynesian, not Amerindian -- but as long as Hawai'i is the 50th State, with its own state quarter and ZIP codes and such, they are an indigenous American people, who should be recognized as such on a similar basis to the 550 or so existing tribal nations on the mainland.

[tigereye]

26. Navajo- probably after reading all those Tony Hillerman books

sounds like an amazing and complex language

[proteus_lives]

28. Huron.

[EFerrari]

30. We're probably part Pipil and I found a site that has a few words.

It would be fun to learn the language well enough to watch how it got folded into the regional Spanish dialect.