*0' DOCUMENT RESUME \ED 233 850 RC 014 280 ,TITLE 'Makah Alphabet Book. iINSTITUTION Makah Cultural and Research Center, Neah Bay, WA. -SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the.Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DX." PUB DATE *Aug 79 NOTE 43p.4 Forirelated documents, see RC 014 281-283. AVAILABLE FROM Makah Cultural and Research Center, P. 0. Box 95,. Neah Bay, WA 98357 ($3.50): PUB TYPE- Guides - Classroom Use - Materials (For Learner) / (051) EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *American Indian Languages; American Indians; Consonants; Elementary Secondary Education; English; *InStruotional Materials; Language Usage; *Letters ' (Alphabet); Native Language Instruction; *Orthographic Symbols; *Phoneme,Grapheme Correspondence; Vowels; Written'Language IDENTIFIERS *Makah (Language) ABSTRACT The book presents the Makah alphabet decided upon in a public workshop'held by the Makah Language Program in 1978, 'before ohich'there was no standard. Makah orthography. The 10 vowelsand 34 consonants of the alphabet are presentea in relation to English sounds. The book groups vowels sounds together but devotes a page,to each consonant telling how to produce the sound and giving:a series of words containing the sound and the English equivalent Of the words. Each page-is illustrated with bold black, white, and red driwings. The book contains an English-Makah vocabulary of 165 words. (SB) **********************************.************************************* * Reproductions supplied by EDRS areithe best that can be made * . * from the*Original-documeit. , *, *********4********************************************t***************
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DOCUMENT RESUME
\ED 233 850 RC 014 280
,TITLE 'Makah Alphabet Book.iINSTITUTION Makah Cultural and Research Center, Neah Bay, WA.-SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the.Humanities (NFAH),
Washington, DX."PUB DATE *Aug 79NOTE 43p.4 Forirelated documents, see RC 014 281-283.AVAILABLE FROM Makah Cultural and Research Center, P. 0. Box 95,.
Neah Bay, WA 98357 ($3.50):PUB TYPE- Guides - Classroom Use - Materials (For Learner)
/ (051)
EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS.DESCRIPTORS *American Indian Languages; American Indians;
Consonants; Elementary Secondary Education; English;*InStruotional Materials; Language Usage; *Letters '(Alphabet); Native Language Instruction;*Orthographic Symbols; *Phoneme,GraphemeCorrespondence; Vowels; Written'Language
IDENTIFIERS *Makah (Language)
ABSTRACTThe book presents the Makah alphabet decided upon in
a public workshop'held by the Makah Language Program in 1978, 'beforeohich'there was no standard. Makah orthography. The 10 vowelsand 34consonants of the alphabet are presentea in relation to Englishsounds. The book groups vowels sounds together but devotes a page,toeach consonant telling how to produce the sound and giving:a seriesof words containing the sound and the English equivalent Of thewords. Each page-is illustrated with bold black, white, and reddriwings. The book contains an English-Makah vocabulary of 165 words.(SB)
**********************************.************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS areithe best that can be made *
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Here are some words beginning-with w
wadlI (skirt) yak (boy)
wiEqqi (bald) lag's idirty..-bad)
The symbol In Makah stands for a sound like on h in English butis made with the tongue raised In the middle.
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Makah practice words -
xutac (bucket) xod,awliE (girl)lcuttiqsi* (taking a drink) wipaxbis (nuisance
The wedge x, Stands fora sound like t x only made even
farther bock In the throat.
'The r"nded wedge X, is mode like the wedge x but with
lips roundeci.
Makoh practice words :
7171iw (13i4) NOV (ten)
wi-gel7Xwadi? (sounds windy) \
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The I in Makah stands for the some sound os the y in the English
words yells* and sari
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Here are Nakah practice words with y in them :,_v ,
(narrow) yuyuoux (wrong)
Yu -'Y (morning) Yu x+ap_ (fifoting)
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English-Makat Word list
ankle kalatkali crow ea q'a du/uashamed Ka?ak crumbling kwackatikattractive qwacat crying ctiriatukbac-king up kwa ?uk curled up qatxwak
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bad wictis digging clams ei . tobald witqqi dirty .wictisbark, inner cedar p'icup cfidog d i kbarnacle eipsileacl dress giqiwadbasket piku?u drink, taking xutaqsikbear , gtizzly nani d ipping taRtaIbending over kwa ?ap dol hin eitkPu?