English	Tlingit	Audio
My body hurts	Ax daa.it tu yanéekw	Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Grade Levels: K-5. Five lessons

The Tlingit language is a thematic language.  Thus, body parts play an important role in noun phrases and verb phrases. The language is very specific. For example, to ask someone how they are feeling you say, “Wáa sá i tuwatee?” The verb, tuwatee is formed by putting toowú (inside/spirit) and yatee (the verb to be).  Once students learn the body parts they will be able to recognize how they are used in every facet of the language, when hearing fluent speakers communicate.

Students will also learn that some nouns [such as body parts] require a pronoun to be placed or attached to the front of the noun.  A fluent speaker would not say shá (head); instead they will always say ax shá (my head).  If the student is not taught the pronoun with the noun, we lose part of the Tlingit language.  As my Tlingit language teacher Florence Marks Sheakley has said, “It is just not a hand floating out there by itself. It is his hand, and it is connected to him.”

My Body Hurts[MS Word]

My Body Hurts: Tlingit Language audio files for this unit [MP3]. Nouns TPR phrases Verbs and verb forms

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