AIR – BEGINNER

Instructions: Click on the beads in the two innermost rings to learn how to say kinship terms and hello in Indigenous languages.

Air – Beginner – EN
Tânisi - Hello Tawnshi - Hello She:kon - Hello Vanh gwiinzii - Good Morning Oki - Hello Shekoli - Hello Tunngasugit - Welcome Naaáhs - Grandfather Awâsis - Child Bèebii - Baby Niksíssta - mother Latiksa'shúha̲ - Children Ilagiit - Family Istá or istah - Mother I chexw tl’iḵ = Hello lhen cheshá7 = My mother ’uy skweyul = Hello ten = Mother

Tânisi - Hello

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Tawnshi - Hello

Michif (Métis)

Algonquian Language Family

She:kon - Hello

Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)

Iroquoian Language Family

Vanh gwiinzii - Good Morning

Gwich’in

Athapaskan Language Family

Oki - Hello

Niitsitapi  (Kanai Blackfoot)

Algonquian Language Family

Shekoli - Hello

Oneida

Iroquoian Language Family

Tunngasugit - Welcome

Inuktitut

South Qikiqtaaluk

Naaáhs - Grandfather

Nêhiyawak (Plains Cree)

Algonquian Language Family

Awâsis - Child

Michif (Métis)

Algonquian Language Family

Bèebii - Baby

Gwich’in

Athapaskan Language Family

Niksíssta - mother

Niitsitapi  (Kanai Blackfoot)

Algonquian Language Family

Latiksa'shúha̲ - Children

Oneida

Iroquoian Language Family

Ilagiit - Family

Inuktitut

South Qikiqtaaluk

Istá or istah - Mother

Kanien'kéha (Mohawk)

Iroquoian Language Family

I chexw tl’iḵ = Hello

Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh sníchim

Squamish Language

lhen cheshá7 = My mother

Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh sníchim

Squamish Language

’uy skweyul = Hello

hul'q'umi'num'

Coast Salish

ten = Mother

hul'q'umi'num'

Coast Salish