Pawnee Language Learning

nawa - greetings

kitû’u’ - everyone and everything. All the people who are there, all the animals that are there, the trees, everyone and everything that is present.

The Pawnee long ‘u’—û—is pronounced like the ‘u’ in June, illuminate and costume.

We will go over all the Pawnee vowel sounds in episode 6.

Listen to Nora Pratt say, kitû'u'

nawa - greetings.

akitâru’ - tribe.

The Pawnee short ‘u’, is pronounced like the ‘u’ in bush, push, cushion, and the vowel sound in foot and book. We’ll go over all the Pawnee vowel sounds in episode 6.

The [ ’ ] is a glottal stop, telling the speaker to clip that final ‘u’, don’t drag it out.

Listen to Nora Pratt say, akitâru'

nawa - greetings

tirastapiwâhat - to everyone seated here and to those who are scattered about. Everyone is in the same general area, but there might be little groups of people scattered around.

The Pawnee long ‘a’ is pronounced like the ‘a’ in father and water. The “ah” sound.

We will go over all the Pawnee vowel sounds in episode 6.

nawa - greetings

tirastapihat - to all who are seated here.

The Pawnee short ‘i’ is pronounced like the ‘i’ in hit, sit, spit.

We will go over all the Pawnee vowel sounds in episode 6.

nawa - roughly equivalent to “Hello”, it’s the Pawnee greeting.

The short ‘a’ is pronounced “uh” like the ‘a’ in above, about, what and was.

We will go over all the Pawnee vowel sounds in episode 6.