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Northern Tutchone Language Lessons: Mayo Dialect (Nacho Nyǟk) Stewart River

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Language Name

Northern Tutchone.

Alternate Language Names

Dän kʼí.

Region

Yukon, Canada

Who

Catherine Germaine (Author and Speaker).

Others Involved

Yukon Native Language Centre (Publisher); Council for Yukon Indians by the Secretary of State for Canada and Aboriginal Language Services (Printing); Government of Yukon (Cover photo); First Nation Programs & Partnerships Unit of the Department of Education (Owner of dictionary).

Publishing Information

Published 1994 by the Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon.

This is a phrasebook published alongside audio from Catherine Germaine.

How People are Cited

The speaker-author, and others involved, are cited on the cover as well as the second and third pages of the phrasebook.

How Information is Cited

The source of information for this phrasebook is cited on the first page.

Where is Information Coming from

The information in this phrasebook comes from Catherine Germaine.

Tools and Framework used

This phrasebook is available as a physical and digital book.

Access

The digital copy (PDF scan) is open access through the Yukon Native Language Centre. It can be found in their Northern Tutchone page under Northern Tutchone Language Lessons with Audio. The physical copy can be accessed through libraries.

Included Languages and Directionality

English to Northern Tutchone.

Dialects Included

This phrasebook is of the Mayo dialect from Stewart River.

Type of Dictionary

This is a bilingual, mono-directional pedagogical phrasebook.

How are Entries Organised

Entries in this dictionary are sentences and phrases rather than one word headwords. Entries are organised topically and are numbered within each short section. The entries are in English, followed by a Northern Tutchone translation.

There are also two grammatical charts incorporated in the dictionary titled Verb Chart and Possessives.

Other Features

Feature Included More Information
Guide to use and understand
Audio There are audio files available for download in the Yukon Native Language Centre website. There are 53 recordings, each corresponding to one of the pages of the dictionary
Images There is usually one illustration on every page that accompanies the topic of the page
Example phrases
Speakers marked All phrases and audio recordings in this dictionary come from Catherine Germaine
Dialects marked This dictionary only includes one dialect

Other Notes

This pedagogical phrasebook's entries are only basic sentences, it does not include headwords like a typical dictionary would.

The audio files that accompany the phrasebook must be downloaded onto a device in order to be heard, they cannot be played off of the Yukon Native Language Centre's website.

External Links

Reference Northern Tutchone Language Lessons: Mayo Dialect (Nacho Nyǟk) Stewart River on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1006830616?oclcNum=1006830616

Open access digital copy and audio of Northern Tutchone Language Lessons: Mayo Dialect (Nacho Nyǟk) Stewart River through the Yukon Native Language Centre: https://ynlc.ca/northern-tutchone/

A direct link to the PDF can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1su95fA2SD69B0AoGWlbvKSL8ME7Sb0Kw/view