Little Man's family = Diné yázhí ba'áłchíní : pre-primer
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Title: Little Man's family = Diné yázhí ba'áłchíní : pre-primer

Author: J. B. Enochs

Illustrator: Gerald Nailor

Release date: October 23, 2011 [eBook #37829]

Language: English, Navajo

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- inconsistent full-stops

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Douglas McKay, Secretary

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Glenn L. Emmons, Commissioner

BRANCH OF EDUCATION
Hildegard Thompson, Chief

Single Copy Price 20 cents

Phoenix Indian School Print Shop
Phoenix, Arizona
Third Edition 5,000 copies—September 1953

Little Man's family
diné yázhí ba'áłchíní
pre-primer

by

J. B. Enochs
illustrated by

Gerald Nailor

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

FOREWORD

This pre-primer is one of three little books based on material prepared by J. B. Enochs, who once taught in the sanitarium school at Kayenta. It deals entirely with typical life experiences among the Navaho, the largest Indian tribe in the United States, numbering approximately 65,000. Nine out of ten Navahos do not speak English, and the tribe has never had a written language.

Missionaries and scientists for many years have had alphabets with which to record this difficult language. But these alphabets have usually included letters not found in English, and have been peppered with diacritical marks to indicate inflection, tonal change and nasalization. Thus they proved too complicated for popular use. Space does not permit mention of many who have worked with the Navaho language. Finally Dr. John Harrington, of the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. Oliver LaFarge, author and linguist, collaborated to produce a simplified alphabet which might be written with an ordinary typewriter. Mr. Robert W. Young, associate of Dr. Harrington, experimentally recorded a great deal of material in this new alphabet. The Navaho portions of later pamphlets in this bi-lingual series are the joint work of Harrington and Young. Little Man's Family has been expressed in Navaho, using the Harrington-LaFarge alphabet, by Willetto Antonio, a Navaho teacher on the reservation, and Dr. Edward Kennard, formerly a specialist in Indian languages for the Indian Service. Both the recordings and the interpretation in these books have been checked by Chic Sandoval, Howard Gorman, and Adolph Bitanny, Navaho interpreters, and by Robert W. Young. Back pages contain an explanation of the sound values represented by the alphabet, and the indications of tonal change and nasalization which are used.

These bi-lingual texts are an attempt to speed up Indian understanding of modern life. Use of native languages to speed up acquisition of English in Federal schools is a new departure in Indian policy, which has proved very successful.

The type used for these books has been selected because of its similarity in design to the alphabet used for manuscript writing. In the primers, only proper names and the pronoun I have to be capitalized, so as to further minimize the new learnings often encountered by the primary child when faced with several different alphabets at once.

Willard W. Beatty

Revised February 1950

I am a Navaho boy.

diné 'ashkii nishłį́.

my mother
shimá

my father
shizhé'é

my baby brother

'awéé' sitsilí

our baby's cradle
nihe'awéé' bits'áál

my big sister
shádí

my little sister
shideezhí

our hogan
nihighan

my father made our hogan
shizhé'é nihighan 'áyiilaa.

our sweathouse
nihitáchééh

the soapweed plant
tsá'ászi'

we wash our hair
nihitsii' tanínádeiigis

our sheep
nihidibé

our goats
nihitł'ízí

our corral
nihidibé bighan

our horses
nihilį́į́'

our wagon
nihitsinaabąąs

my mother's saddle
shimá bilį́į́' biyéél

my father's saddle
shizhé'é bilį́į́' biyéél

my little spotted pony
shilé'éyázhí łikizh

my black dog
shilééchąąshzhiin

my mother's loom
shimá bidah'iistł'ǫ́

my mother cleans the wool.

shimá 'aghaa' hasht'eilééh

my mother cards the wool.

shimá 'aghaa' hanéiniłcha'.

my mother spins the wool
shimá 'aghaa' hanéiniłdis.

my mother weaves a rug.

shimá diyogí yitł'ó.

my sisters help my mother.

shádí dóó shideezhí shimá yíká 'anáhi'nilchééh.

we sell the rug.

diyogí ninádahiilnih.

THE NAVAHO ALPHABET

The following information with regard to the Navaho alphabet and its use should prove helpful to one familiar with the English language.

VOWELS

The vowels have continental values. They are as follows, the first example being a Navaho word, the second the closest approximation to the sound in an English word:

a | gad (juniper) | father
e | ké (shoe) | met

i

sis (belt) or as in
dishááh (I'm starting)

sit or as in
pique

o | doo (not) | note

Vowels may be either long or short in duration, the long vowel being indicated by a doubling of the letter. This never affects the quality of the vowel, except that long i is always pronounced as in pique.

sis (belt) is short | | siziiz (my belt) is long

Vowels with a hook beneath the letter are nasalized. That is, some of the breath passes through the nose in their production. After n, all vowels are nasalized and are not marked.

tsinaabąąs | (wagon)
jį́ | (day)
kǫ́ǫ́ | (here)

DIPHTHONGS

The diphthongs are as follows:

ai | hai (winter) | aisle
ei | séí (sand) | weigh
oi | 'ayóí (very) | Joey

The diphthongs oi (as in Joey) will frequently be heard as ui (as in dewy) in certain sections of the reservation. However, since the related word ayóó is always of one value, this spelling has been standardized.

In a similar way, the diphthongs ei and ai are not universally distinguished. For example, the word for sand, séí will be pronounced sáí by some Navahos.

CONSONANTS

The consonants are as follows:

b | bá (for him) | like | p | in spot
d | díí (this) | like | t | in stop
g | gah (rabbit) | like | k | in sky

These sounds are not truly voiced as are the sounds represented by these letters in English, but are like the wholly unaspirated p, t, and k in the English words given as examples.

t | tó (water) | tea
k | ké (shoe) | kit

The t and k in Navaho are much more heavily aspirated than in the English words given in the examples, so that the aspiration has a harsh fricative quality.

' | glottal stop | yá'át'ééh (it is good) | unh unh, oh oh

In the American colloquial negative unh unh, and in the exclamatory expression oh oh, the glottal stop precedes the u and the o respectively. Or, in actual speech, the difference between Johnny earns and Johnny yearns, is that the former has a glottal closure between the two words.

t' | yá'át'ééh (it is good)

This letter represents the sound produced by the almost simultaneous release of the breath from the closure formed by the tip of the tongue and the teeth and the glottal closure described previously.

k' | k'ad (now)

This sound is produced in the same way as the t', except that the k closure is formed by the back of the tongue and the soft palate.

m | mósí (cat) | man
n | naadą́ą́' (corn) | no
s | sis (belt) | so
sh | shash (bear) | she
z | zas (snow) | zebra
zh | 'ázhi' (name) | azure
l | laanaa (would that) | let
ł | łid (smoke)

This sound is made with the tongue in exactly the same position as in the ordinary l, but the voice box or larynx does not function. The difference between these two l's is the same as the difference between the b and p, d and t, or s and z. If one attempts to pronounce th as in thin followed by l without an intervening vowel a ł is produced. Thus athłete.

h | háadi (where) | hot

In Navaho there are two sounds represented by the letter h. The difference is in the intensity or fricativeness. Where h is the first letter in a syllable it is by some pronounced like the ch of German. This harsh pronunciation is the older, but the younger generation of Navahos tends to pronounce the sound much as in English.

gh | hooghan (hogan)

This is the voiced equivalent of the harshly pronounced variety of h, the functioning of the voice being the only difference between the two sounds.

j | jádí (antelope) | jug

This sound is an unaspirated ch, just as d and g represent unaspirated t and k.

ch | chizh (wood) | church
ch' | ch'il (plant)

This sound is produced in a fashion similar to the t' and k', but with the release of the breath from the ch position and from the glottal closure.

dz | dził (mountain) | adze
ts | tsa (awl) | hats

ts occurs in the beginning and middle of Navaho words, but only in final position in English.

ts' | ts'in (bone)

This sound is similar to ch', except for the tongue position, and involves the release of the breath from the glottal closure in the same way as the other glottalized sounds.

dl | beeldléí (blanket)

The dl is produced as one sound, as gl is in the word glow.

tł | tła (grease)

This sound is pronounced as unvoiced dl.

tł | tł'ízí (goat)

This sound involves the release of the breath from the t position of the tongue tip and teeth, from the contact of the sides of the tongue inside the back teeth (normal l position), and the glottal closure. It has a marked explosive quality. The sound is produced as a unit, as in the gl of glow, cited above.

y | yá (sky) | you
w | 'awéé' (baby) | work

PALATALIZATION AND LABIALIZATION

It is to be noted that the sounds represented by g, t, k, h, gh, and ch, ts (when heavily aspirated) are palatalized before e, i, and labialized before o. By this it is meant that such a word as ké (shoe) is pronounced as though it were written kyé, and tó (water) as though written twó.

Due to the nature of the gh sound, it practically resolves itself into a w when followed by o. Thus tálághosh (soap) could be written táláwosh, yishghoł (I'm running) as yishwoł etc.

k and h can also be pronounced as kw and hw before e, i, in which case the combination is a distinct phoneme. In such cases the w must be written. Thus kwe'é (here), kwii (here), hwii (satisfaction) etc.

TONE

The present system of writing Navaho employs only one diacritical to express four tonal variations. This is the acute accent mark (´). If a short vowel or n, both elements of a long vowel or a diphthong are marked thus the tone indicated is high. If only the first element of a long vowel or diphthong is marked the tone is falling from high, and if only the last element is marked the tone is rising from low. When a vowel, diphthong or n is unmarked the tone is low. The difference between low and high tone in Navaho is similar to the difference in tone of "are you" and "going" in the English question "are you going?"

'azee' | (medicine) low tone
'azéé' | (mouth) high tone
háadish? | (where?) falling tone
shínaaí | (my elder brother) rising tone

WORD AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Teachers will note that the possessive pronouns of Navaho are always prefixed to the noun. Thus, we have shimá (my mother), nimá (your mother), bimá (his mother), but never má. The stem -má has no independent form and never occurs without a prefix.

The structure of the Navaho verb has similar characteristics, but is more complex. The subject of the sentence is always incorporated in the verb with a pronominal form, and other verbal elements. Ideas of time and mode are likewise incorporated in the verb, and auxiliary verbs such as will, did, have, might, etc. do not occur in Navaho. The ideas conveyed by these independent words in English are expressed by different forms of the verb itself in Navaho.

Another point in which Navaho sentence structure differs from English is that English prepositions are postpositions in Navaho.

with my elder sister | shádí bił (my elder sister, with her)
for my mother | shimá bá (my mother for)

whereas normal word order in English is subject, verb, and object, Navaho has subject, object, and verb.

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Table of Contents

- Transcriber's Note:
- Little Man's family
- diné yázhí ba'áłchíní pre-primer

- J. B. Enochs

- illustrated by

- Gerald Nailor

- FOREWORD

- THE NAVAHO ALPHABET

- VOWELS
- DIPHTHONGS
- CONSONANTS
- PALATALIZATION AND LABIALIZATION
- TONE
- WORD AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE

- PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS INDIAN LIFE READERS

- Transcriber's Notes:

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