Ketchikan | Learn Xaad Kil (Haida Language)

"The language is always evolving," says Haida language apprentice, Linda Schrack, "which means we have to coin new words for things that our ancestors didn't have." A few years ago, one of Schrack's language mentors, Erma Lawrence, made up a word for computer: gudáay gín 'wáadluwaan an únsad, which, literally translated means "the box that knows everything."

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Háw'aa ☺️

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the phrase ''aatl'an is ahl dii gudangaay laagang'' sounds like the sounds made in icelandic and welsh !

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+Gabriel Eldritch Want to read some fascinating books? Get "America BC", "Bronze Age America" by Barry Fell, the late Ph.D. holding arecheologist who taught at Harard University. The Celts have been in North America since at least a few centuries before Jesus Christ! The abosolute PROOF that this is true is the linguistic similarity between the Celtic language and SEVERAL native language that are still spoken in North American today!

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haida is an amazing language!

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More Linda.

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"Beautiful"