Hopi (Hopilàvayi)

Hopi is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in northeastern Arizona. Though there are relatively few speakers, the language is still being passed on to children, there is a comprehensive Hopi-English dictionary and a group called the Hopi Literacy Project are working to promote the language.

Hopi has an interesting way of expressing concepts of time and space: for something that happens a long way from a speaker is described as having happened in the distant past.

Hopi pronuncation

Hopi pronunciation

Sample text

Lords Prayer in Hopi: http://www.language-museum.com/h/hopi.htm

Links

The Hopi Tribe - their official website
http://www.hopi.nsn.us

Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
http://www.nau.edu/~hcpo-p/

Information about the Hopi language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi_language
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/Hopi.html

The Lenape / English Dictionary
http://www.gilwell.com/lenape/

Other languages written with the Latin alphabet