gayi — hello
mayara — friend/countrymen
ngada — my name is …
#Munkubayi — aka #Burketown

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-13/indigenous-language-taught-in-outback-classrooms/105280598?

Whoa! Found this while organizing my closet. I bought this in the late 1990’s. Cherokee Nation still sells this too.

I learned some basic vocabulary that I never forgot but the missing component was taking a class with a fluent speaker. #cherokee #indigenouslanguage

Diné-led nonprofit immerses children in their native language - “Some think learning your own Indigenous language can hold you back in society,” Lee said. “We were kind of forced to believe that through the boarding school and assimilationist educational practices. So we’re trying to counter that now and show how learning your own Indigenous language is not going to hold you back. Actually, it’s the complete opposite.”

https://nmindepth.com/2025/dine-led-nonprofit-immerses-children-in-their-native-language/ #Diné #IndigenousLanguage #Indigenous #Language

I love looking through https://native-land.ca. I learn something new every time I go, usually by just clicking on one of the random articles on the side. It's pretty clear that it's a small team behind it, and I wish they had more resources to be able to put more indigenous languages on the map (literally!).

If you have some time on your hands and a passion for language, I'd highly suggest checking out their Volunteer page: https://native-land.ca/how-to-contribute/volunteer It's a lovely way to contribute to/learn about global Indigenous sovereignty and lift up marginalized voices. Each language is a worldview; we can learn so much if only we look for it!

Also this is Ariel; I'd post this on my profile but wandering.shop has a very small character allowance and I am way too long-winded for it, I have found :P

#IndigenousLanguage #IndigenousSovereignty #LandBack #NativeLand #LanguageRevitalization #Languages #Maps #Mapping @arielkroon

Question for anyone who is fluent in the #Cherokee (aka #TsaLaGi) language:

I'm looking for the words for Jew, Jewish, and Judaism. I've struck out with all of the standard dictionaries and lexicons, so instead I turned to the Cherokee New Testament (translated more than 100 years ago, so it has many words that aren't listed in dictionaries, and looked at some of the verses that use the word "Jew," in the hopes of figuring out which word is the right word.

I think I may have found it, but would appreciate if any Cherokee fluent folks could confirm this for me.

So anyway I think the word in Cherokee syllabary is: "ᎠᏧᏏ" but in phoenetics, it would be: "A-tsu-si"

I've seen two 7pm bulletins now with Greg Jennett, and something is obviously missing.

Yuma and yarra.

Is this just a thing Greg is not doing, or is ABC Canberra not doing it at all anymore? Why has it stopped?

new plan for #LanguageLearning from recording by an expert speaker, I see a pattern to work out for other verbs #LingítLanguage Tóow-–kaayí
Awé tle yéi ash yawskaa “Ha tsu héenx̱ g̱agú.”
Tsu héenx̱ woogoot.

(Speaker told hero to go into the water again. Then hero went into the water again)

gunalchéesh Taakw Kʼwatʼi who generously shared his knowledge

This is a post looking for that quirky bunch of friends (some on bluesky now) who enjoy #ContraDance #FolkMusic #MyAlaskaWx #FensterFriday #Yukon #IndigenousLanguage @thelmaleuba.bsky.social is one person I hope to reach this way Wider net includes #GregoryGardens #GirlScouts
#MDUSD #OccidentalCollege So if this works right, I write on Mastodon and folks can read on Mastodon AND on BlueSky. (but it might be a magic spell I havenʼt perfected yet)

dret ɬush ukuk!!! shawash tilixam lalang kʰapa bisi illsee pipa kʰapa pli karc pi slaal ihi hilp. (This is really good!!! Indigenous languages on BCLC pamphlets for gambling help.)

Check out the new Indigenous language pamphlets in Chinook Jargon and Skwxwú7mesh sníchim!

Chinook Jargon:
https://www.gamesense.com/content/dam/gamesense/resources/keep-gambling-fun/keep-gambling-fun-chinook.pdf

Skwxwú7mesh sníchim:
https://www.gamesense.com/content/dam/gamesense/resources/keep-gambling-fun/keep-gambling-fun-squamish.pdf

What #IndigenousLanguage #names for the city currently called #ThunderBay
by Anglophones are currently in active usage?

Alaska moms couldn’t find Yup’ik children’s book so they made one themselves ️
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5090805/yupik-mom-in-alaska-creates-her-own-books-to-teach-her-kids-the-yupik-language

* mother/small business owner searched online/stores near home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula
* couldn't find books to teach her young children Yup’ik language
* Nikki Corbett/friend Katie O’Connor (illustrator/mother) created own Yup’ik alphabet coloring book
* 21,000 Alaskans identify as Yup’ik; 1/2 speak language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yup%27ik

Crystal passionately talks about her language, Chinuk Wawa. Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMSTkbtPBk

dlet ɬush ukuk anqati chinuk qat shati! (really good old chinuk love song!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7iT1BLr74

@ScoterD I notice you too are studying #IndigenousLanguage. Which one? I am learning Likʷal̓a which is a southern dialect of Kʷakʷal̓a a Wakashan language. I am mamaɫa - white

Montana Poet Laureate: "Learn a few words in the languages of the people whose stolen lands you are living on, and then use them too. That is a wonderful first step to truly honoring people...I used to be shy about using the “Indian” words I learn. Then Stephen Small Salmon, a Kalispel tribal elder [Flathead Reservation], told an audience I was part of that, “If you know just one word of your Indian language, you say it! You say it with pride!” " #IndigenousLanguage #ChrisLaTray

FEMA checking how information in our neighborsʼ syllabics was printed for Yugtan speakers https://alaskapublic.org/2023/10/11/fema-under-investigation-after-unintelligible-merbok-relief-information-was-sent-to-alaska-natives/
#IndigenousLanguage #Alaska #YKdelta #Yup’ik

Learn X̱aad Kíl (the language of Haida people) Dag júus Rob Yates, a Haida language scholar and cultural coordinator, is Alaskan Haida and lives and works in his ancestral village of K’áaws Tláay.

Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2023

Class Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm AKDT
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