HeyJaredAnishinaabemowin Word Parts
Looking for someone to share your Anishinaabemowin learning journey with?Join Dené and Rochelle as they share stories from their experience as adult Anishinaabemowin learners, and follow along as they work to better understand Anishinaabemowin word parts (initials, medials,…
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Ep 15: Colour Medials and Finals (opens the original)
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Anishinaabemowin Word Parts: Color with Medials and Finals Rochelle and Dené continue their colour series by expanding on finals (and medials) that you can be add to colour initials to form more expressive verbs. Examples of finals include including -aate for light (e.g., waabishkwaate), akone for flame (eg. miskwkone), naagwan/naagwad and naagozi for something appearing (eg. ozhaawashkonaagozi). They then introduce using medials (especially body parts, clothing, and land features) to build long
Ep 14: Colour Initials (opens the original)
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Rochelle and Dené introduce how Anishinaabemowin expresses colors through word parts and initials in particular. Recording in person for the first time and learning more about podcasting with support from the Indigenous Screen Office. Colour initials include miskw- red in miskwaa (inanimate) / miskozi (animate), waabishk- white in waabishkaa/waabishkizi, makadew- black in makadewaa/makadewizi. They discuss ways to practice remembering object animacy through games. They also explore regional vari
Ep 13: Making and harvesting (-ike) (opens the original)
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Turning Nouns into Verbs with the Anishinaabemowin Final -ike Rochelle and Dené reconnect after the summer. With classes and community programs starting up for the fall, they encourage teachers and learners to keep going, support others, engage on Facebook, and spend time with speakers. The episode’s focus is the verb final “-ike,” which turns nouns into VAI verbs. -ike means to make/produce/gather/harvest and can expand new learner vocabulary because you can add it to nouns that learners may al
Ep 12: Alan Corbiere (part 4) (opens the original)
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Anishinaabemowin Word Parts: Alan Corbiere on Plant and Bird Names In the fourth summer-session episode of Anishinaabemowin Word Parts, hosts Rochelle and Dené conclude their interview series with Alan Corbiere. Alan explains his interest in how beings are named, emphasizing the value of documenting and understanding Anishinaabe bird and plant names and their connection to morphemes. He notes that endings in tree terms may reflect an Anishinaabe classificatory system distinct from Western taxono
Ep 11: Alan Corbiere (part 3) (opens the original)
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Morphology, Adult Immersion, and Intergenerational Transmission In this, the third episode of the interview series with Alan Corbiere, Alan discusses how Anishinaabemowin’s descriptiveness comes from morphology, but the language is still often taught word-for-word. He also describes some hands-on morpheme-ordering activities inspired by Mohawk educator Brian Maracle, which ARP developed to help learners construct words. Alan also summarizes Brian Maracle’s language revitalization reflections: pr
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