Video Size
Tlingit Conversation #19
Speakers are Kaaxwaan Éesh George Davis, Ḵaachkoo.aaḵw Helen Sarabia, and Naakil.aan Mark Hans Chester. Recorded June, 2009 at Egan Library, University of Alaska Southeast, in Juneau, Alaska, by Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff. This recording documents conversational use of the verb √x̱aa, 'eat'.
This material is based on work supported by National Science Foundation grant BCS-0853788 to the University of Alaska Southeast with Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff as Principal Investigator and by National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship 266286-19 to Ljáaḵkʼ Alice Taff. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or National Endowment for the Humanities.
Tlingit transcription by Naakil.aan Mark Hans Chester. English translation by Shákwsháani Margaret Dutson and LjáaḵkʼAlice Taff. Edited by X̱ʼaagi Sháawu Keri Edwards and Ḵaachkoo.aaḵw Helen Sarabia.
SYMBOLS: {false start}, [translator/transcriber's note], (added for clarity), ??? = canʼt understand, «quotation marks for Tlingit text (so as not to be confused with Tlingit ʼ)» Time-aligned text for this video was accomplished using ELAN ((Versions 6.0 (2020), 6.1 (2021), and 6.3 (2022) [Computer software]. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Language Archive. Retrieved from https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan
Decaf áwé ax̱diná, ách áyú.
That's why I drink decaf.
Oh. Ax̱ téix̱' áwé ootsínch. Aaá.
My heart comes alive. [speeds up]
Yéi daak yéi x̱at yawsiḵaa
The doctor said to me
decaf áwé kg̱eedanáa.
you are going to drink decaf.
[At shooḵ]
[Laughter]
Yéi á!
This is the way it is!
Dawóotl áwé yaa ndashán.
It's difficult getting old.
[At shooḵ] Ha.é!
Laughter] Too much!
Yéi s x̱'ax̱a.áx̱jin nujéen,
I used to hear them say that,
ax̱ léelk'w hás,
my grandparents,
«Yaa indashán óosh dei chx̱ánk'.»
“If only you are getting old, grandchild.”
Aaá.
Yeah.
Yeedát áwé haa éet ḵuwaháa!
And now it's our turn now!
Aaá. [At shooḵ]
Yes. [Laughter]
Eesháan yaa ndashán!
It's tough getting old!
Eesháan!
Poor thing!
Goodéi sáyá kax̱wlitsaaḵ?
Where did I stuff it?
Laaḵ'ásk gé eex̱á George?
George, do you eat black seaweed?
Aaá.
Yes.
I x̱'éit gé yak'éi?
Does it taste good to you?
Éisk'! Linúkwts!
It's delicious! It's sweet to me!
Aaá.
Yes.
Kḵwax̱áa.
I'll eat some.
A g̱áa yóo tooḵóox̱'gun. Boy!
We used to go after them. Boy!
Laaḵ'ásk gé?
Is this black seaweed?
Aaá.
Yes.
Way outside.
Ax̱ tláach áwé
My mother
yéi awsinéi wé laaḵ'ásk
picked the black seaweed
ḵa ḵ'áach', Yaakwdaatx'.
and ribbon seaweed too, in Yakutat.
Uháan tsú.
Us too.
K'idéin awax̱áa,
She ate it well
wé du dachx̱ánk',
her little granddaughter,
{tléil} tléil uwaxúk dei! [Tlél uxóokch yeisú]
and it wasn't dry yet!
Ch'a yéi áwé du tuwáa sigóo aawax̱áa. [or: ax̱aayí]
That's just how much she likes to eat it! (She eats it anyway!
Ch'a tlákw atx̱á [or: ax̱áa] nooch wé laaḵ'ásk.
She always eats black seaweed.
Tléil, wáa sá duwasáakw?
It's not, what is that called?
X̱at tsú ax̱ dachx̱ánx'i yán ax̱ {ax̱ x̱ánt} x̱ánt has woo.aadí
Me too, when my grandchildren come by me
fridgedei (analg̱éin) fridge é, ch'u tlei.
then they looked in the fridge.
Has du tuwáa sigóowu át.
What they really like.
Ch'a x̱at ax̱ aayí áwé ch'a g̱oot yéix'.
My food is in a separate place.
Ax̱ tuwáa sigóo {s} has du tuwáa sigoowú wé Lingít at x̱aayí ax̱ dachx̱ánx'i yán.
I'm glad that my grandchildren like Tlingit foods.
Starting with 1, of course.
Tléik'.
No.
Daa sáwé eex̱á, yaa yeedát?
What are you eating now?
Sakwnéin áwé yax̱ x̱ax̱á.
I'm eating like, bread.
Éis'k'! Gax̱toosáa.
Delicious! We will name it??
Dleit ḵáa sakwnéin.
White man's bread.
Aaá.
Yes.
X̱'ég̱aa yak'éi.
It's truly good.
Linúkdzi sakwnéin.
Sweet bread.
Linúkts! ???
Real sweet!
Mmm.
Wuditláx̱ áwé Lingít atx̱aayí tléil eex̱áaḵ.
Don't eat the Tlingit food that is moldy.
Mmm.
Kei ikg̱wanéekw!
You will get sick!
Ha.é!
Too much!
Ha.é!
Too much!
Wé chatl x̱'éeshi gé i x̱'éit yak'éi?
Do you like dried halibut?
Ḵúnáx̱!
Very much!
Ch'a tlákw áwé wutoox̱áa nooch, at yátx'i [or: At yátx'i yáx̱ áwé toox̱áa nooch].
As children we always would eat it.
{wé} Kei nx̱wawaadí [kei ax̱ nawádi] wé at x̱éeshi ax̱ tláach awa.óo.
And growing up my mother bought dry fish.
Éis'k'!
Delicious!
Yaakwdaatdáx̱.
From Yakutat.
Back seat, Back seatx' {yéi x̱waa} yéi x̱waanóok.
I sat in the back seat.
Ch'a ldakát át áwé x̱waax̱áa!
I ate different things!
«Ha.éi! Ilí, ilí ,» yéi yawaḵáa ax̱ tláa.
“Too much! Stop, stop it,” my mother said.
«Haa x̱'éis aa yéi na.oo!»
“I'm buying it for us to eat!” [Kaachkoo.aaḵw speaking as the mother.]
«Haa at x̱aayí áwé!
That's our food!
Wáanáx̱ sáwé
Why are you
ch'a ldakát át eex̱á wé at x̱'éeshi?»
always eating everything, and the dry fish?”
«Ch'a ax̱ tuwáa sigóo,» yéi yax̱waakáa.
I just like it, I said.
[At shooḵ]
[Laughter]
Laaḵ'ásk tsú
Also black seaweed,
ch'a ldakát haa Lingít at x̱aayí áwé
just all kinds of our Tlingit foods
Yaakwdaatdáx̱.
were from Yakutat.
Éitsk!
Yum!
Haa x̱oonx'í yán
Our relatives
haa jeet has kawdiháa wé [or: haa jeet has aawawóo]
sent us
at x̱aayí.
food.
Yix̱ á gé Lingít at x̱aayí?
Do you eat Tlingit foods?
Next one.
Yix̱á,
You eat,
Yix̱á gé Lingít at x̱aayí?
Do you eat Tlingit foods?
X̱'ax̱waanáḵ Lingít at x̱aayí.
I stopped eating Tlingit foods.
[At shooḵ] [He just said that to get the verb form on the recording.]
[Laughter]
Yeedát áwé recordx̱ haa doolyéx̱ tle ax̱ toowú kútx̱ x̱waag̱éex'.
Now that we are being recorded I've lost my mind.
Yáa atx̱á gé wé yéi x̱at ya.óo.
Maybe it's this food that makes me that way.
Kḵwax̱áa x̱á.
I'll surely eat it.