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Rowinataworu Luhchi Yoroni = Tunica language textbook /
"The essential guide for learning the Tunica language. For many years, the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana collaborated with students and faculty at Tulane University on a project to revitalize the Tunica language. Tunica had not been spoken or used regularly in the community since the last kn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés North American Indian |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tunica basics. About the Tunica letters
- Syllables
- Stress
- Heni! Taheni (Greetings)
- Kanahku tetisa? (What's her name?)
- Gender-number endings
- Tetimili: Tunica names to know (Culture)
- Hil'itiki! Singular habitual engings
- Plural habitual endings
- Dual habitual endings
- Tetimili: Rahp'itiki! (Culture: Let's play ball!)
- Kanahku ya'iti? Singular completive endings
- Plural completive endings
- Dual completive endings
- Titimili: Tuwatasiwat'e̳ (Culture: the owl-mammoth)
- Wirakashi. Wir'intaki! (Let's count!)
- Wirakashihta (Ordinal numbers)
- Tahch'a (Months)
- Tetimili: Tihika Nisa (The New Year)
- Taya nahchu. Taya nahchu (Transitive verbs)
- Tetimili: Tinikowihchi (The clawed witch)
- Taya waka. -ki (Positive commands)
- tan (Polite commands)
- ahatan (Negative commands)
- Tetimili: E̳sha wakan'e̳he̳tan! (Do not fell willows!)
- Tayak'ahcha o̳sa sahusinim'ama. Tayak'ahcha (Future actions)
- Connections
- Tetimili: Kana Tiyushe̳lahchi tihko̳kali tihkyukati (How Possum got her pouch)
- Yoluyana-ka Taya wan'ama. Yoluyana-ka (Question words)
- Taya wana (Stative verbs)
- Vowel-initial taya wana
- Tetimili: Nuhchi Tahch'i tihkarhilani (Sun Woman Story)
- Taka taritaworutohkushi. He̳ku, hiku (This and that)
- 'This' and 'that' as people
- 'This' and 'that' as things
- Tetimili: Ritaworu (School)
- Taka halani. Takosu (Colors)
- Taka Halani (Adjectives)
- Tetimili: Kaya Tarushtaku tarku hotushi uhki (Why Rabbit lives along the edge of the woods)
- Eht'ira. Alienable possession
- Tetimili: Tawohku (Hats)
- Inalienable possession
- Tetimili: Personal adornment
- E̳nstayi. E̳nstayi (Our bodies)
- Ir'itiki! (Let's get dressed!)
- Tetimili: Tachuhchuhinaku uhktawohku (The redheaded woodpecker's hat)
- E̳he̳li. Inalienable possession
- Age and gender
- Tetimili: E̳he̳li (Famliy)
- Tetisinima. He̳hchi, hihchi, mihch (This here, that there, and that over yonder)
- Kata? (Where?)
- Spatial relationships
- Tasapashi, tihikashi, pikatishi, lekatishi (North, south, east, and west)
- Tetimili: Wantaha, hahchi, hishtahahki (A long time ago, now, still)
- Taya nahchu hatika. Transitive verbs with objects
- Word order
- Tetimili: Hahka uhkkalin'uhke̳ni (The origin of corn)
- Ate̳htaya. -wana, -sh'e̳pa (want to, like to)
- wan (in order to)
- shkan (but)
- Tetimili: Lo̳hka (Basketry)
- Saku. Taya korini ili (Class II verbs (habitual))
- Taya korini ili (Class II verbs (completive))
- ni
- Tetimili: Hahka O̳shta (Green corn)
- Ahkihtaku. -hchan, -shtuku. -tohku (must, can, little)
- po-, -hila-, -hapa- (try, about to, already)
- Tetimili: Rihku, yimohku (Trees and plants)
- Nini sachihkuta! Taya Tahch'i (Feminine weather verbs)
- Taya Rahihta (Masculine weather verbs)
- Tetimili: Ninisinima taparu kichu hopata. (When fish fell from the sky)
- Yoluyana mash'itiki! Yoluyana nisa (New words)
- Compounding
- Tetimili: Luhchi tihkyaru (Tongue twisters).