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Subject(s)

• Tunica language [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Textbooks [Browse]

Summary note

"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 known speaker, Sesostrie Youchigant, passed away in 1948. The center of the revitalization of the Tunica language is this first-of-its-kind, beginning Tunica language textbook. The Tunica Language Textbook (Rowinataworu Luhchi Yoroni) contains everything needed to be come conversationally fluent in Tunica. Like other language textbooks, it contains vocabulary and grammatical information, as well as practice exercises that develop both comprehension and production of Tunica, and acquisition of the patterns, not just the forms. The textbook contains links to an online pronunciation guide and includes a wealth of information on cultural topics, from stickball to basketry to naming to cosmology, and uses the language to do so. Wherever possible, excerpts from the original documentation of Tunica stories and myths have been included, so that students can become acquainted with native-like language use. Each chapter is structured to lead the student through the stages of learning, from presentation of new information, to recognition, to identification, to application. While there is explanation of the topics in English, the lessons are designed to be used in an immersion classroom setting as well as for individual use"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 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 (Family)
• 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).

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Other title(s)

Tunica language textbook

ISBN

• 9780253066329
• 0253066328 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2022043025

OCLC

1336702709

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