Advanced Lingít

This page is designed to help students and followers of the class, Advanced Lingít at the University of Alaska Southeast. Classes can be viewed here on YouTube and the handouts for the class are listed below the date.

For beginning resources, please purchase and/or download the following items:

Beginning Tlingit Workbook (2nd edition) by X̱ʼunei
Tlingit Dictionary (current draft) by X̱ʼunei
Tlingit Verb Dictionary (yellow dictionary) by Gillian L. Story and Constance M. Naish
Lingít X̱ʼéináx̱ Sá (a Lingít phrasebook) by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer

Also, please bookmark or download the Tlingit Verb Database updated webpage by Keri Eggleston • Project webpage

For intermediate resources, please purchase and/or download the following items:

Haa Wsineix̱ Haa Yoo X̱ʼatángi (a grammar of Lingít for intermediate learners) by X̱ʼunei
Tlingit Reference Guide (a handbook for using verbs) by X̱ʼunei

Haa Shuka (Lingít Oral Literature) by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís (Lingít Ḵu.éexʼ Speeches) by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer

For advanced resources, please purchase and/or download the following items:

Tlingit Stem List (a list of Lingít verb stems) by Jeff Leer
Tlingit Verbs Notes (handwritten notes on Lingít verbs) by Jeff Leer
Verbal Structure Handbook (a collection of tables to interpret and assemble verbs) by James Crippen

Tlingit Verb Notes (by Jeff Leer, typed by Yéil Tʼoochʼ Tláa) (pages, word, pdf)

Lingít Ḵaa X̱ʼéit Kadushxeedí

Ḵeixwnéi ḵa Xwaayeenáḵ Ḵaa X̱ʼéit Has Akawshixít Ḵóok

Lingít Ḵuyawdahaayí

Additional Course Documents:

Tlingit Curriculum Shared Folder

Lingít Verbs (document)

Tlingit Verb Notes (by Jeff Leer, typed by Yéil Tʼoochʼ Tláa) (pages, word, pdf)

Leer Noun list: noun-database-combined-alphabetical (numbers), noun-database-combined-alphabetical (excel), noun-list (html)

Old Texts for Retype & Translation

Students should look at other Lingít language resources, which can be found on the Resources tab of this website.

Gunalchéesh!

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Advanced Lingít I – Fall Semester – 2023

We will be meeting using Zoom meeting software. You can access our class by clicking here.

Lingít Woosh Ée Yoo X̱ʼadudli.átk ḵa Sh Tóo Dultóow Gaawú (Lingít Conversation & Study Time). Access by clicking here.

Course Syllabus

Semester Sentences

New Vocabulary

Dís Yádi 20, 2023
Wáa sá yatee haa yéi jineiyí? Postpositional pronouns, peg vowels, x̱ʼaduwóosʼ, √neek, verb theme, transitivity, motion verb madness

Handouts: notes (pdf), chat (txt)

Dís Yádi 18, 2023
daa sá haa ée wdudlitóow, haa yoo x̱ʼatangi tóot aayí, -keit ~ -yeit

Handouts: notes (pdf), Lingít Verb Components Handbook (draft pdf), Lingít Component Activities (pdf, pages, word), Lingít Components Chart (numbers, excel), chat (txt)

Dís Yádi 13, 2023
yeis, ḵu.éexʼ, tléixʼ aa haa ée wdudlitóowu át Lingít yoo x̱ʼatángi daat, aadé woosht kadujél yé haa yoo x̱ʼatángi.

Handouts: notes (pdf), chat (txt)

Dís Yádi 11, 2023
dáa x̱oonxʼí yán, aadé haa yoo x̱ʼatángi xʼúxʼu kadultín yé, haa yéi jineiyí

Yéi Jiné Dís Yádi 13:

In English, tell us something you learned in Lingít and tell us who you learned it from and why itʼs important to you
In English, talk about how you hope this semester goes and what will help you learn
In Lingít, say something in closing for this moment.

Handouts: review (slideshow), notes (pdf), chat (txt)