Dena'ina (and Tlingit, sorta) in the news

[Ryan Denzer-King]

However, it's not necessary to borrow a word from English to name a new concept.  Those that want to keep the purity of their language (which I don't think is without warrant) can use language-internal lexemes, e.g., the Blackfoot word for 'car' is a compound meaning "it begins to run without apparent cause".

 

Ryan Denzer-King
 
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:02:11 -0900
> From: gmholton at ALASKA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Dena'ina (and Tlingit, sorta) in the news
> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> 
> And there is also the well-worn comment about the lack of a word for
> 'computer'. How many languages must fade due in part to a puristic
> aversion to borrowing?
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Andrea L. Berez <andrea.berez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And there's also a nice link in the first paragraph to the qenaga.org
> > website :-)
> > -----------------------------
> > Andrea L. Berez
> > PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics
> > University of California, Santa Barbara
> > http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The article doesn't have much content, but there's a great photo of
> >> Roy Iutzi-Mitchell looking angry about Dena'ina disappearing. Roy has
> >> been working with Dena'ina people for the last year or so, helping
> >> plan and develop their revitalization programs. Dena'ina is getting
> >> more and more press lately as Anchorage residents become aware that
> >> the land they live on is traditional Dena'ina territory.
> >>
> >> http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659
> >>
> >> Just underneath that article is one about the "Proud Raven" totem
> >> pole, a Tlingit pole featuring a likeness of Abraham Lincoln. This
> >> article doesn't mention the third tradition for the pole's carving,
> >> the one I heard as a kid, which is that it represents the unpaid debt
> >> for slaves which were freed by the Americans. Not very romantic, so
> >> it's not very popular. I can't interpret the names because they're too
> >> Anglicized but "Yalgeewee" probably has the Tlingit yéil /jéːɬ/
> >> "raven" in it.
> >>
> >> http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> James
> >
> >
 		 	   		  
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