By Pamela Innes, Linda Alexander, Bertha Tilkens
ISBN-10: 0806135832
ISBN-13: 9780806135830
Starting Creek offers a simple creation to the language and tradition of the Mvskoke-speaking peoples, Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole Indians. Written by means of linguistic anthropologist Pamela Innes and local audio system Linda Alexander and Bertha Tilkens, the textual content is obtainable to common readers and scholars and is observed by means of compact discs.The quantity starts with an advent to Creek background and language, after which every one bankruptcy introduces readers to a brand new grammatical characteristic, vocabulary set, and sequence of conversational sentences. Translation routines from English to Mvskoke and Mvskoke to English toughen new phrases and ideas. The chapters finish with short essays through Linda Alexander and Bertha Tilkens on Creek tradition and background and proposals for additional reading.The audio CDs current examples of ceremonial speech, songs, and storytelling and contain pronunciations of Mvskoke language keyed to workouts and vocabulary lists within the ebook. the combo of recorded and written fabric offers scholars an opportunity to profit and perform Mvskoke as an oral and written language.Although Mvskoke audio system contain the Muskogee (Creek) and Seminole international locations of Oklahoma, the Poarche Band of Creek Indians in Alabama, and a few Florida Seminoles, the variety of local audio system of Mvskoke has declined. as the authors think that language and tradition are inextricably associated, they've got mixed their years of expertise conversing and instructing Mvskoke to layout an introductory textbook to assist Creek audio system safeguard their conventional language and lifestyle.
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9. 10. cvto pvkpvkoce fuswv hoyv EXERCISE 2 Choose ten syllables from the two-letter syllable list on page 9. Decide whether these syllables are light or heavy or may be either. For syllables that may be either light or heavy, pronounce them first as light syllables, then as heavy syllables. EXERCISE 3 Working with a partner, randomly select five words from the Mvskoke-toEnglish glossary at the end of the book. Pronounce each word you have selected. Have your partner write the word as you pronounce it.
Pohes nokoset honvnwvn. Pipucen hoktet celayes. Honvnwv noces vcule\t. Sokhan letkes. Rakkon ohlikes estucet. Ehesse\ hoktet honvnwv ehicvn he\ces. Mvskoke Emponvkv 43 EXERCISE 5 In the following drill, your teacher or a fellow student will begin with a simple sentence containing a subject noun and a verb. Repeat the sentence after the leader. The leader will then introduce a new noun from the vocabularies in chapters 1–3. You are to substitute that noun in the subject position of the simple sentence.
We will begin with easier sentences and work our way up to more complex constructions. Each of the Mvskoke sentence examples presented in this book consists of three lines of information: (1) the sentence in Mvskoke; (2) a translation showing the location of the grammatical information contained in the sentence; and (3) a less technical translation of the sentence. WORD ORDER If a Mvskoke sentence includes more than a single word, the order of the words may differ from their order in an English sentence.
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