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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Ákaitsinikssiistsi/Blackfoot Stories of Old

Ákaitsinikssiistsi/Blackfoot Stories of Old

Russell, Lena
Genee, Inge
Singer, William

Paperback

Series: First Nations Language Readers, Book 1

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasBilingual Education

ISBN10: 0889773181
ISBN13: 9780889773189
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: Apr 24 2014
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The third volume in the First Nations Language Readers series--meant for language learners and language users--this collection presents eight Blackfoot stories told by Lena Russell Ikkináínihki 'Gentle Singer, ' a fluent speaker of Blackfoot from the Kainai (Blood) reserve in southern Alberta. In contrast with other Algonquian languages, such as Cree and Saulteaux (Ojibwe), Blackfoot is not usually written in syllabics, so these stories are presented in the Blackfoot language using the Roman alphabet, together with the English translation. The spelling system is based on the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and should be transparent for native speakers of Blackfoot as well as for linguists. The Reader includes a Blackfoot-to-English glossary containing all the nouns, verbs, adjuncts, etc., found in the texts, as well as stress or pitch accents over the vowel or vowels which bear the accent.

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