My Body Hurts
Goldbelt Heritage Foundation ANA Language Award #90NL0460/02 from Administration for Native Americans “Tlingit Flowing Through Generations: A Region-Wide Approach to Language Revitalization” 1 Ax daa.it tu yanéekw My body hurts. Grade Levels: K-5 Tlingit Cultural Significance: The Tlingit language is a thematic language. Thus, body parts play an important role in noun phrases and verb pharses. The language is very specific for example to ask someone how they are feeling you say, “Wáa sá i tuwatee?” The verb, tuwatee is formed by putting toowú (inside/spirit) and yatee (the verb to be). Once students learn the body parts they will be able to recognize how they are used in every facet of the language, when hearing fluent speakers communicate. Also students will learn that some nouns require a pronoun to be placed or attached the front of the noun, as in body parts. A fluent speaker would not say shá (head)…
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