Book 1

Snʔawʔawtn 1

This workbook is the first in a series being developed in partnership with Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee, Salish Kootenai College, The Salish Institute and Nk̓ʷusm. The series is designed to help take students of Salish language from beginner to fluent speaker in an efficient, sequenced and predictable manner.

Snʔawʔawtn 1: A Beginning Course in Salish & Qlispe Dialect, Lessons 1-45, S&P Version has been adapted from the qlispé snuwewlštn, Beginning Salish 1 (lower Kalispel dialect).

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Lessons 1 - 45

1. Greetings

2. Numbers & Age

3. Foods 1

4. Physical Descriptions 1

5. States of Being 1

6. Personality Traits 1

7. Colors

8. Drinks

9. Weather

10. Places to go

11. Having a Meal

12. Telling Time

13. Foods 2

14. Physical Descriptions 1

15. Actions 1

16. Classroom objects

17. Clothes 1

18. Body Parts 1

19. Places in the City

20. Days of the week

21. Health & Sickness

22. Clothes 2

23. Family 1

24. Family 2

25. Household items

26. Animals 1

27. Animals 2

28. Camping

29. Past Actions

30. Powwow Talk

31. Locations

32. States of Being 2

33. Shopping

34. Food 3

35. Animals 3

36 People

37. Physical Descriptions 3

38. Plants

39. Personality 2

40 Bodily Functions

41. Occupations

42. House

43. Household items 2

44. Transportation

45. Actions 2

Curricular approach and text organization used with the permission of Christopher Parkin.