This Tlingit example was taken from a text edited by Dauenhauer and Dauenhauer (1990). It was a description of public speaking given by Ix̱t’ik’ Éesh (A.P. Johnson) in Sheet’ká (Sitka) in 1971. This text is in the Alaska orthography.

As some of the accented letters in Tlingit are not independently encoded by Unicode, the accents may not appear in the positions they should.

Lingít áyú yéi yanaḵéich
“Yee eedéi x̱’akḵwatáan.”
Ḵaa yoo x̱’atángi
héen yíx̱ kei nagut ḵáa yáx̱ yatee,
k’éx̱’aa teen.
Héen wánx̱ oowax’agi x̱áat áyú
du k’éx̱’ayi a kát ax̱’eilhaashch.
Ag̱ak’éx̱’ín ch’a yóo kaawahayi x̱áat
du eenx̱ nasteech.
Yéi áwé yatee ḵaa yoo x̱’atángi.
Ch’a yóo kaawahayi yoo x̱’atánk
du eenx̱ nasteech.

Last Update: October 24, 2008