Tlingit (Lingít)

Tlingit is a Na-Déné language with about 575 speakers in the USA southeast Alaska from Yakutat (Yaakwdáat) south to the Canadian border at Portland Canal, and in Canada inland from British Columbia into south central Yukon Territory between Tagish and Kaska northward.

Tlingit pronunciation

Sample text in Tlingit

Athapaskan tóo-nux̱ uyúh kawsi.àh hah Lingít ḵoostèeyee. Lingít tlàgoo tóo-x’ uyúh yéi kudoonéek, yúh hah shugóon súkw, àn g̱uluḵóo yéig̱ah, àg̱ah uwèh daḵ-x’ hus woolilàh. Yáh yeedút dlèit ḵách Arctic Circle yéi yus´ḡoo yei-x’ uwéh hus woolilàh. Dlèit ḵáh ḵoonujéeyee, hús uwéh yéi’s kawjixít hah shugóon súkw nakée, t’éex’ kàh-nux̱, yáh-nux̱ yun hus oowu.át. Yúh sh-kulnèek ḵo.àh tléil uwooyàh. Doo toondutánee ḵoodziteeyee ḵáh tléil yúh áh ḵoosu.át’ee yéi-dei doo yúx’ee tèen goog̱u.àt, ḵuh yun dug̱awútx’ee tèen, ch’uh yúh t’éex’ kàh-nux̱ yun hus g̱wa.àdit. Tléil tsoo hus uh wooskóh t’éex’ áh yéi tèeyee. Ḵoosu.át’ee yéh uyóo yóo nakée; tléil dah súh áh koo.éix̱; tsoo ut wooàdee útx’ee sánee tsóo tléil áh yéi ootíh. Tléil tsoo áh yéi ḵootée. Tákw-x’ tlukw ḵookooshg̱itch. Wooch g̱oowunádei ḵah utx̱àayee tsóo tléil áh yéi ootíh. Tléil uh t’éi-t uh yux̱doowuhanee út ḵoostíh. Yát’ah tléil yéi x̱’awdután uyúh, tléil àdei út koowoog̱agoowoo yéh. Adei ḵo.àh shukdéi ḵoogoox̱lus’ées. Yéi ut kuwooàaḵw àdei uh n’g̱u.àdee, yut’ix’ee út-x̱ ḵah jèe-x’ goox̱sutée.

Translation

The Tlingit tribe is one of the Athapascan tribes. It is told in some Tlingit legends that during Noahʼs flood the Athapascan tribe, as the water subsided, landed in the area of the Arctic Circle. The theory of many writers is that the Athapascans came across the Bering Ice Bridge. This doesn't stand to reason. Why should a family or group of people—men, women, children, and older people—go up North? Just to cross an Ice Bridge they did not know existed? It was a cold, desolate, uninhabited place, dark during part of the year, without much variety of food and with no protection. This is not to say that a group of people could not land at such a place by accident. But to go there willfully, at great discomfort to the whole group, is not reasonable.

Other languages written with the Latin alphabet

Links

Information about the Tlingit language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language

Tlingit language resources
http://www.alaskool.org/language/indexing/tlingindex.htm
http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/programs/language_resources.htm
http://www.tlingitlanguage.org

Online Tlingit dictionary
http://www.alaskool.org/language/dictionaries/akn/dictionary.asp

Online Tlingit lessons
http://www.khns.org/listen_tlingit_archive.php

Tlingit Culture, Language and Literacy Classrooms at Harborveiw Elementary School, Juneau, Alaska: http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/hbv/Programs/tlingit_classrooms/

CCTHITA (Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
http://www.tlingit-haida.org

Israel Shotridge - Native Tlingit Carver
http://www.shotridgestudios.com/welcome.html

Alaskan Orthodox texts (Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, Yup'ik). An ongoing project offering Alaskan Orthodox texts on-line in their original languages and alphabets
http://www.asna.ca/alaska/

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