Say It in Tlingit: A Tlingit Phrase Book

You, too, can become a Tlingit speaker! Lingít Xh'éináxh Sá! Is your practical companion in making the language a living part of your life. Browse through this phrase book and identify situations in which you could use a Tlingit phrase with someone else in a meaningful context. People have been learning this beautiful language for thousands of years; and you can, as well, if you start using one or two new phrases each day and make it a practice to do so with other Tlingit language enthusiasts. Tlingit is an Indigenous language of Southeast Alaska and adjacent portions of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. It is classified linguistically as part of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language family because it shows clear similarities in grammatical structure to the Eyak and Athabaskan languages. These Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit languages are unique, carrying to exquisite heights an attention to the detail of the form of an object when determining how to use an accompanying verb. The Tlingit language itself is unique in four sounds that seem to be found in no other language on our planet. With a multitude of carefully selected sentences for your analysis, this book gives students of linguistics and invaluable corpus of data. Practice locating and identifying the morphemes within Tlingit words, and the underlying logic of the language will open to you.