Haku 'ał’aliwǝ’ǝ,
Hello brothers and sisters,
My name is Timothy Henry. I am a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and I have spent the last 5 years of my life in devoted research to the language of the Ventureño Chumash people.
In order to reach out to those that I cannot meet in person, I have decided to start this blog. I will try to post something every day, even if it is just a word.
You can subscribe to it as a podcast, and then listen to it at your ease.
This morning I woke up with a terrible headache, so we will use this opportunity to teach you two words:
1) uši’ik which is a verb, and it means ’to ache, to hurt’
2) yǝwǝš which is a noun, and it means 'head or face'
If we put them together in a sentence, we get:
tšuši’ik he’šikyǝwǝš, which translates as literally, 'I ache my head,' and which translates practically as 'my head hurts.'
Well, that's all for today, I look forward to talking to you tomorrow,
Kayakna’ał
