The Tahoe Tongue

A blog on the Native American Washo language of Nevada. Leavening grammar with humor, sharing the linguistic love, making accessible a difficult but fascinating language.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Lesson 3b: Kin

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The dominance of kinship and corporeal terms in Lesson 3 serves a didactic purpose, but the main purpose of this entry is different. Thus I...

Friday, October 7, 2011

Lesson 3a: Kin and Corpus

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The Washo language is allergic to a vowel at the beginning of stem. This is a common phenomenon in the languages of the world - even in lang...

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Lesson 2b: Drink Me! Eat Me!, or Through the Lookingglass

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Okay, so this is where 2b goes. It's probably more understandable after 2a than before. You and I have a common feature in Washo, at l...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Lesson 2a: A Tisket, A Tasket, Tie the Baby in a Basket

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I missed a week: mea maxima culpa. It is said that, in English, you can verb any noun; in Washo the boundary between nouns and verbs is a ...

Friday, September 2, 2011

Lesson 1c: Blankets and Bones

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It's Labor Day, but there's one final twist on the prefixes for the summer. The prefixes m- , ť- , and d- are as well behaved as on...

Friday, August 26, 2011

Lesson 1b: If I Only Had A Heart

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I see that I posted 2b last week rather than 1b. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea minor culpa. I'm going camping tomorrow next to 'at'a...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Lesson 1a: Bed and Board, M'Lord

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(A brief note before we start: if these posts seem short, they are baby steps to walking in the Washo language.) Washo words are not allow...

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