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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon July 10, 2005 Page 9 THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES LANGUAGE LESSON- Learner's Corner chishkiio This is a simple and useful conversation. Ploaco trw thic VAith vnur fripnHc rn-Anrkpi"5 I IWUtJW V. I J Wl WYIlll J IIIWI WW IIVIIWIVJ or Elders! Take every opportunity you can to use and practice Ichishkiin! Hello, this is the "Culture and Heritage Depart ment". May I help you? , am Rnh 'Sti CL-Fisss"Y Ring... jARing'" f Vchi nawanish?"" j v Mishnam wa A j Hello, who are you? Ai!! Chi isaw "Culture and Heritage Depart- J ment", mishnam? m i i f IV y I Chiish nawachich Bob. Oh! How are you today, Bob? Last week we saw that a couple clues abou the subject of the sentence which show up at the end of action words, such as "-ash""-ish" and "-nam". We see that in the last conver sation: Mish -nam wa chikuuk How -you are today We also see this pattern from Bob: Chi -ish nawachich Bob (Here) -I am , Bob iymu Now that you have practiced last issues Numu conversation, keep it going with this one! Language isn't alive until it is spoken, often. So, let's talk Numu! Yadoana I Hagau? y J tabeno, f I How are you ? Who are you ? Oh! How are you today, Bob? if Ha oo u? Esoo "Culture Heritage Department." 7 ( Hemma u sookwi'e? Hello, this is the "Culture and Heritage Depart ment". May I help you? ,amRnh anch J f )C Nu vow. Bob. You probably recognize "ha oo u" and "tabeno" from the last reply, meaning "how are you" and "day" respectively. Have you tried asking anybody these questions? Expecially "Ha oo u?" and "Hemma u sookwi'e?". You could be surprised by what you hear in reply! Kiksht Let's use Kiksht everywhere, even on phone conversations! Here is a simple conversation. Give it a try on your friends, Elders, or even the Culture & Heritage Department! Above all else, let's keep Kiksht in use. Awawatbama Ring... Ring... Hello, who are you? -IV Culture & Heritage J c S Dept, aga chi s ) ( ayamgenxudinma? j I ( Naika Bob Hello, this is the "Culture and Heritage Depart ment". May I help you? iamRnh 3 Oh! How are you today, Bob? Here is a closer look at the final response: Aah! Qenqi maita daya wigwa, Bob? How you are this day (Remember, word-for-word translations don't express the full depth of a word. We would see the same thing in Kiksht, were we translating an. English sentence in Kiksht.) The m in maita tells us that this action word is talking about the subject you. If we put an n there instead, for naita, we would change the subject to I. (As in, "how am I today?")