PRAYER: (said with daycare kids)

1. Kchi-niweskʷ (great spirit)

Wəliwəni nəbi (thank you water), wəliwəni wskitkamikʷ (thank you earth),

wəliwəni wəjawsən (thank you wind), wəliwəni skʷəde (thank you fire)

Məzitte nədalαgomak (all my relations)

 

 

IMPORTANCE:

“our language is not a thing, it’s not a life form, it doesn’t breath and therefore it cannot die. It is instead a verbal expression of our intergenerationally established thought patterns that represent for us today a viable epistemological knowledge system. But languages can be ceased to be spoken and when that happens it’s a reflection of community change. Revitalizing language therefore is also about community change.” –Daryl Baldwin

 

USEFUL TERMS:

  “I don’t understand you”  “Say it again”  “speak slowly/ lower voice”
(pnbscot)

 2. ahtα gəwewtolo

4. mina idamən

6. menənədonke

(psmqdy)

3. made knustolo

5. apch idamon

  7. menagadawest

 

 

 

 

TENSES:

GIZI (past) DALI (present) GADI (future)

8. nəgizi-zəgi —  I peed

9. nədali-zəgi — I am peeing

 10.  nəgadi-zəgi — I’m going to pee

11. nəgizi-bigədi — I farted

12. nədali-bigədi — I am farting

13. nəgadi-bigədi — I’m going to fart

14. nəgizəjagohke — I pooped

 15. nədalijagohke — I am pooping

16. nəgadawəjagohke — I’m going to poop

17. gizəlαn — it rained

18. dalαn — it’s raining

19. gadawəlαn — it’s going to rain

20. gizi-psαn — it snowed

21. dali-psαn — it’s snowing

22. gadi-psαn — it’s going to snow

23. gizəlαmsən — it was windy

24. dalαmsən — it’s windy

25. gadawəlαmsən — it’s going to be windy

26. nəgizihpi I ate

27. nədalihpi  I am eating

28. nəgadi-nαjihpi I’m going (somewhere) to eat

29. nəgizəssəmi I already drank

30. nədaləssəmi  I am drinking

31. nəgadawəssəmi I am thirsty

  

  

1635

Charles d' Aulnay designed and built Fort Pentagoet on a pennisula on the Eastern shore of Penobscot Bay. Known today as Castine.