[Athapbasckan-L] "Butterfly" in Athapascan languages

[Erin Grace]

I belong to the Chetco and Tututni tribes, which hail from southern Oregon
and northern California. We call ourselves Dee-ni' and our language is
Nuu-wee-ya' ("our words"). "Butterfly" in Nuu-wee-ya' is *ch'vsh-k'i* (a
more southern pronunciation) or *ch'vs-k'i *(a more northern pronunciation).

Erin Grace
http://about.me/eringrace/bio


On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 9:17 AM Lynda Minoose <lynda.minoose at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The term  "Athabaskan" languages was changed to "Dene '' languages at a
> Dene Language Conference in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Athabaskan is an
> Algonkian language word which refers to the Dene people. We refer to
> ourselves as Dene which is made up of many distinct tribes and languages
> throughout North America. I belong to the Denesųłiné group which is one
> of languages of Dene Nation.  There are 19 Denesųłiné communities in
> Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and NorthWest Territories, Canada.
> Butterfly in Denesųłiné is "yagole." I’ve also heard some elders call
> them "galamalas"
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:37 AM Kienpointner, Manfred <
> Manfred.Kienpointner at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>> I am a retired professor of general and applied linguistics (Univ. of
>> Innsbruck, Austria). Among my main research areas are rhetoric and
>> argumentation and contrastive linguistics (Latin-German, Turkish-German).
>>
>> Besides, I am writing a popular booklet about general names for
>> "butterfly" in 200 languages. With this project, I would like to draw the
>> attention of interested lay people to the endangered status of both these
>> charming creatures and many small indigenous languages.
>>
>> Of course, I am not competent as far as the vast majority of these 200
>> languages is concerned. That is why I ask native speakers and experts for
>> help and to have a controlling look at my data, which I collected from
>> dictionaries, grammars, articles, and available internet sources.
>>
>>
>> If you could help me with butterfly words in four Athapascan languages (I
>> have data from Carrier, Slavey, Navajo and Western Apache), I would send
>> you my little texts (a few lines per language). I also have data from Haida
>> (I am aware of the fact that Haida is considered to be a language isolate
>> by the majority of experts, so Haida is not related to Athapascan
>> languages, but I suppose that some of you might have expert knowledge of
>> Haida, too).
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Manfred Kienpointner
>>
>>
>>
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