Tlingit

About the Tlingit language

Read about the Tlingit language.

2023 Tlingit Audio Calendar with QR Codes

Interactive Storybook with Audio

Nèł Yì – At Home by Elizabeth Smith & Margaret Bob

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Interactive Language Lesson with Audio

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Sam Johnston – Teslin Dialect

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Tlingit Downloadable Learner Resources

About These Resources

This page provides links to digital copies of language lessons, literacy session booklets, and story books that have been prepared over the past thirty years by the Yukon Native Language Centre and Tlingit Elders and community members, including from Carcross/Tagish First Nation and Teslin Tlingit Council in the Yukon. The work of all contributors to these materials is gratefully acknowledged here.

Recognizing the importance for Yukon First Nations governments, Elders, advocates, learners, and teachers of Tlingit to have access to language resources, the Council of Yukon First Nations‘ Yukon Native Language Centre and Yukon Education‘s First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit have worked together to provide the language materials below with assistance from Christopher Cox. These digital resources are available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .

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Tlingit Language Lessons with Audio

To open and view a pdf file, click on the Title. To download the AUDIO file, click on the icon.

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Tlingit Story Books

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Tlingit Listening Exercises

1. Tlingit Listening Exercises and Drills.
   Leer, Jeff and Yukon Native Language Centre, 1997.

Four Tlingit Stories by Sam Johnston

1.  Four Tlingit Stories | Download Audio 
   Johnston, Sam and Yukon Native Language Centre – Narrated at the October 2014 Tlingit Literacy session at the Yukon Native Language Centre.

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Tlingit Literacy Sessions and In-Services

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Table of Contents for Literacy Sessions
This document contains the general topics covered for each session.

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1.  Tlingit Literacy Workshop. January 23–25, 1984. Yukon Native Languages Project.
   
2. Tlingit Literacy Workshop. May 6‐8, 1985. Yukon Native Language Centre.
   
3. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, November 26, 27, 28, 1986.
   
4. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, October 13–15, 1993.
   
5. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, February 6–8, 1996.
   
6. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, October 30–November 1, 1996.
   
7. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, November 8–10, 1999, February 14 and 18, 2000.
   
8. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, November 15–17, 2000, February 14–16, 2001.
   
9. Tlingit Literacy Session. Whitehorse, Yukon, February 25–27, 2002.
   
10. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, March 5–7, 2003.
    
11. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, October 13–15, 2004.
    
12. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, November 16–18, 2005.
    
13. Topics in Tlingit Verb System and Orthographies. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, and Dr. Jeff Leer, Alaska Native Language Center. Based on the Tlingit Literacy Session, September 11–13, 2006, YNLC.
    
14. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, February 19–21, 2008.
    
15. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, February 16–18, 2009.
    
16. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, September 9–11, 2009.
    
17. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, March 1–3, 2010.
    
18. Tlingit Literacy In-Service. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, November 16–17, 2010.
    
19. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, February 15–16, 2011.
    
20. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, November 15–16, 2011.
    
21. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, September 27–28, 2012.
    
22. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, November 13–15, 2013.
    
23. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, October 6–8, 2014.
    
24. Tlingit Literacy Session. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, October 6–7, 2015.
    

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Search all Tlingit print resources

For detailed instructions on how to search, view, download, and print these materials, please see the language learning resources guide.

This embedded document contains all Tlingit print resources. It allows you to search all documents at one time. Click your mouse in the document window below and then Type ‘Ctrl’ and ‘f’ keys on your keyboard. Type in a search word or phrase in the small box that pops up and then hit ‘enter’ key. You can type in english or Tlingit but you cannot use diacritics in the search.

Search all Tlingit print resources

• Search all printed Tlingit language resources (1,529 pages, 159 MB).
• Search all printed Tlingit language lessons (167 pages, 6 MB).
• Search all printed Tlingit literacy sessions (1,214 pages, 123 MB).
• Search all printed Tlingit story books (148 pages, 30 MB).

Other Learning Resources

1. YNLC Tlingit YouTube Channel
2. Alphabet Chart – Tlingit
3. Language Map
4. Tlingit Reference Guide: Verbs, Grammar, Location & Direction, Concepts
   © 2019 Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell
5. Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary
6. Sealaska Heritage
7. Tlingit Dictionary
8. Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages
9. Online Tlingit Verb Dictionary
10. Beginning Tlingit book and CD – Nora and Richard Dauenhauer
11. Beginning Tlingit workbook
12. Sneaky sounds – Introduction to Tlingit sounds and spelling
13. Tlingit Language website
14. 575 Tlingit Verbs: A study of Tlingit Verb Paradigms
15. Education Resources
16. Tlingit Language Curriculum K-12
17. Tlingit Language Curriculum – Primary Grades
18. Say it in Tlingit – book and CD
19. Here is an AMAZING list of Tlingit words/pairs that are easy to confuse, written by UAS Professor Xh’unei Lance Twitchell