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    The document provides a lesson on greetings and asking for names in the Lushootseed language. It includes a song for greeting and asking names, demonstrates greetings and asking names in Lushootseed, and defines some new words used in the language lessons.

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    Lushootseed Language Lesson 2: Gat Ii adsda?” What’s Your Name?

    1-12-09
    By: Rebecca Chamberlain

    Part 1: Song: sTiliB (From our text and CD, xelSucid sTilib, Lushootseed Songs.)

    “Gat Ii adsda?” What’s Your Name? (A welcome song.)


    By: Zeke Zahir, (?esweli?)

    First Verse: (sing twice)


    hayu hay hayayay (repeat seven times)

    Second Verse (sing once)


    Gat Ii adsda? hayayay. (repeat seven times)
    What is your name?

    Third Verse (sing as many times as you want.)


    male name__ti dsda? hayayay. (repeat seven times)

    or
    female name_tsi dsda? hayayay.

    Part 2: Greet Each Other

    Gat Ii ads.da? What’s your name? (Second person)


    male name_ti dsda? male _is my name. (First person)
    female name_tsi dsda? female is my name. (First person)

    Gat Ii sda?s What is his, her, or its name? (Third person.)


    female name_tsi sda?s female is her/its name. (Third person.)
    male name_ti sda?s male _is his/its name. (Third person.)

    Part 3: New words

    Gat who (“Who” is used when asking someone’s name.)

    Ii in this situation, it is used like “this” or “that” to indicate something that is uncertain. It
    is used to denote a hypothetical adjective or demonstrative (125, 244)
    Isi female, hypothetical adjective or demonstrative (125, 244). As in “Isi besZad, Lady
    Louse.”

    Affixes-parts of speech that you add to the beginning of a root word (prefix), or to the
    end of a root word, (suffix)

    d- my [prefix] First person


    ad- your [prefix] Second person
    -s his, hers, or its, [suffix] Third person

    sda? name

    dsda? my name First person


    adsda? your name Second person
    sda?s his, her, or its name Third person

    xelSucid (Southern dialect); dxleSucid (Northern Dialect)

    page numbers reference the Lushootseed Dictionary

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