Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
June 12. 2003
THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON-
Father's Day
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Father's Day
K'aya alugutf'gixida iyaxmagapx
winamsh.
A father's work
never ends.
AmsNIglagwarfigwa
wimam
daminwa.
Always take care
of your father.
Amiluxa wimam.
Make something
for your father.
Ikwafayamsh amiluda wimam.
Make you father feel happy.
Dan emtukdi amtgiuxa wimam
umpta.
Do something
nice with your
father.
Amigumluxaida
wimam.
Love your father.
Amigemxanaunxma wimam.
Be proud of your father.
Naa tabeno
Father's Day
Pesa tee naa tabeno.
Happy Father's day.
Tamme te
naawitoo
yadoakwe.
Let's talk about our
fathers.
Ya tabeno
tamme te naa
pesa
masoonamekukwe.
Today is the day to
make our fathers
happy.
Natutas Lkw'i
Father's Day
Today's Ichishkiin language lesson will be
on Father's Day and also with honorable
recognition to our paternal and maternal
grandfathers; because of them we are
here today.
Pusha Paternal grand-father, grand-child
Til a Maternal grand-father, grand-child
NatUtaS ku Tuta Talking to father
Psht Referring to father
Tta Son
Isht Son of a man.
Pesa mu naa matuguna.
Do something special for your Dad.
Oosoo pesa te mabetseadu.
He takes good care of us.
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Here is part of a story from Russia about a project
working to sustain one of their native cultures and
languages. We have made it far and we can go
much futherjust as they did!
(Under-line emphasis has been added.)
Russia: Efforts Under Way To Prevent
Extinction Of Shor Language
By Charles Carlson
1995-2003 Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, Inc.
1 All Rights Reserved. http:www.rferl.org
Prague, 5 June 2003 (RFERL) According to the
Foundation for Endangered Languages, the major
ity of the world's languages are being spoken by
fewer and.fewer people, with many of them on the
verge of extinction. Recent estimates place the
number of languages in the world at around 6,000,
of which 52 percent are spoken by fewer than
1 0,000 people. Twenty-eight percent of these
languages are spoken by fewer than 1 ,000 people.
On the other hand, the 10 major languages of the
world are each spoken by more than 1 00 million
people and are the mother tongues of almost half
of the world's population.
David Crystal is one of the world's foremost
authorities on languages and the author of "Lan
guage Death." He has been a staunch supporter of
preserving endangered languages, particularly his
native Welsh. In an interview with RFERL, Crystal
spoke of three factors that must be taken into
account when speaking of preserving dying lan
guages. "For a language to be preserved, three
things need to happen, and thev have to work
together," he said. "There has to be. first and
foremost, bottom-up interest. That is, the people
themselves must want the languages preserved.
Secondly, there has to be a top-down interest.
Somebody in power, whether it's a local govern
ment, or a national government, or a reflex of
some international organization such as UNESCO,
Te
natukadu ka
tepo kooba
hane.
He puts food
on the table.
Tamme
koobatu
woikudu.
He works for us.
Oosoo tuhoawidu, wunidu.
He goes hunting and fishing for us.
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or the United Nations, or the Council of Europe.
The third factor is there has to be cash: somehow,
somebody has got to pav for this."
One of the languages whose survival is currently
under threat is Shor, a Turkic language spoken by
the Shor people, whose historic homeland is the
Kemerovo Oblast in south-central Russia.
Before the 1 91 7 Revolution, the Russians called
the Shors by various ethnonyms, depending on
the location of a given tribe or clan. By the end of
the 20th century, all of these tribes had merged,
to the extent that they became a single ethnic
unit. ... By 1 935, the Shors had their own written
language, 32 schools, and 64 native teachers.
... And as a result of the influx of workers during
the 1 930s from other regions of Russia to de--velop
the region's coal, iron, and gold deposits,
the Shors' share of the region's population
dropped from about 39 percent in 1 931 to 1 3
percent in 1 938. After this, the Shor language and
culture rapidly declined through assimilation.
The late 1 980s and early 1 990s saw a revival of
Shor culture and traditions. ... a chair of Shor
language and literature was established at the
Kuzbass Pedagogical Institute in Novokuznetsk,
the capital of Kemerovo Oblast. Sixty students
have already graduated from the faculty, which
has four teaching staff... Shor is also being taught
at some village schools.
Of efforts now being made to write literature in
Inmi pusha iwanisha
Jasper.
My paternal grandpa's
name is Jasper.
Kuush wanishana Tila
Charles Tiamukmuk.
And my maternal grand
father was named Charles
Tiamukmuk.
Chikuuk matash
atauwisha Natutas
tkw'ipa.
Today we honor all our fathers and
grand-fathers this day.
Psht ku Tta pawanisha James ku
Frank.
A father, James, and his son, Frank.
Atwanaitanam
spasikw'at Pusha,
Tilamaman.
The grand-children
need tn earn nn the
. y - -
zeacmngs.
Ishtama panak'niinta
kwaan wat'ichan.
And all the sons need to carry on and
move forward.
li au ku mishmash anch'a q'inuta.
the Shor language, Shor language instructor,
Gennady Kostochakov says, "Nowadays, Shor
literature is being created by a group of writers.
During the 1 990s and currently a Shor language
periodical 'Tugan Cher1 'Native Land' is being
issued, and nine booklets containing selections of
Shor poetry have been published. Among them are
'Onzas Cherim' by Lyubvo Arbachakova and Tang
Atcha' by Nikolai Bel'chegeshev... Members of the
Shor Department of the Union conduct seminars.
Young people attending them study their native
language and discuss their own poetic creations."
Asked whether a language like Shor with less
than 1 0,000 speakers has reached the point of
no return, language scholar David Crystal says, "It
is possible for a language to survive, to regenerate
- to 'revitalize' is the usual term regardless of
the number of speakers it has...