Learn key Ten Kenaga' / Lower Tanana Athabascan vocabulary
Basi’ (Thank you)
bats (seagull)
ch’etena (animal trail)
ch’etth’ena’ t’on’ tr’eł’ani (fireweed)
ch’eyona’ (bald eagle)
denigi (moose)
dęy’ (spring)
dotron’ nił’anh khw (view of a bird)
dotron’ (raven)
ełtr’eya (wind)
Ełtr’eyh. (The wind is blowing.)
gath (king salmon)
kha’ał tr’ekhwneyi (subsistence - what we live on)
khwkh (canada goose)
Khwnił’anh. (Watch it.)
khwyhts’en’ łuka (silver salmon)
khwyhts’en’ (fall)
K’okhideneyh. (They are working.)
k’eddhet (fishing place)
k’eyh (birch tree)
k’och’enałt’wghenh (pilot)
k'un' tendeyosrde (where fish spawn)
Lis noghelbeł. (The seed is spinning.)
lis (birch seed)
nen’ti (hunting ground)
Nonghit’wk. (It has landed.)
notu’ (ocean)
Not’wkh. (It is flying.)
No’idelakh. (They came back.)
nulaghi (dog salmon)
sanh (summer)
tsuya (birds of summer)
ts’eba (spruce tree)
Tth’itu’ (Tanana River)
tu drok (fish wheel)
t’egheth (cottonwood)
yo ch’etlanh (drone - it sees from the sky)
yots’enodzida (drone - bumblebee in the sky)
łuk’a (fish)
łuk’a lekh (salmon run)
Translation David Engles
Narration David Engles