This page is designed to help students and followers of Intermediate Tlingit 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
Gunalchéesh!
Intermediate Tlingit 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 & Calendar:
Dís Yádi 21, 2023
Q&A, using verb resources, verb conjugation handbook, weather & time, nouns & noun suffixes
Handouts: Lingít Verb Components Handbook (pdf), weather & time (slideshow), chat (txt)
Dís Yádi 19, 2023
Táaxʼaa (grammar!), Intro to Verbs
Handouts: Táaxʼaa Grammar (partial slideshow), Intro to Verbs (partial slideshow), chat (txt)
Dís Yádi 12, 2023
Táaxʼaa Táaxʼaa Táaxʼaa Táaxʼaa
Handouts: Táaxʼaa (Stage 1, partial), notes (pdf), chat (txt)
Dís Yádi 07, 2023
Tsʼatsʼée, Q&A, Táaxʼaa, Beginning Lingít review
Handouts: notes (pdf), chat (txt)
Táaxʼaa (pdf, updated pdf)
Dis Yádi 05, 2023
Kanikapila Ḵu.éexʼ • Hawaiian–Lingít Cultural Exchange
Shaa Xeiyí Dísi 31, 2023
wooch een jinkaatdé tustóow, aadé sh tóo tooltóow yé, Little Readings in Lingít
Shaa Xeiyí Dísi 29, 2023
aadé sh tóo tultóow yé, yoo sh tuwasáakw, g̱unéi wooch een yéi jitooné
the way we study, introducing ourselves, starting to work together
Handouts: notes (pdf) chat (txt)