Chahta Anumpa - Choctaw Language

Halito Okla Homma!

[haliˈto ˈokla ˈhoma]          (hah-lee-TOE OKE-lah HOME-mah!)

Note: "Okla Homma" means "red people" in Chickasaw and Choctaw.

 

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Sound recording of "Halito"

Source: "Choctaw Language." Internet: <http://www.reevesplace.com/choctaw/> January 20, 2006.

 

• ChoctawNation.com – The Official Website of the Choctaw Nation
• ChoctawOnline.com – Choctaw Nation Language Department
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• Choctaw courses and materlials from the V.I.P. Publishing Company
• geocities.com/ChahtaAnumpa/ – Chahta Anumpa
• Choctaw Online Language Tutor at Native Nashville
• Wikipedia article on the Choctaw language

 

Vmmona ka Chitokaka yvt vba, micha yakni aiena ka ikbi tok. Mihma yakni vt shahahbi bieka, micha nana kvt vlhtaiyaha iksho bieka tok; mihma okhlili hvt oka hofobi chito paknaka ya onvtoyula tok: mihma Chitokaka imi Shilombish vt oka pataiya paknaka ai o kanahanli tok. (Chenesis 1:1, 2)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1, 2 ASV)

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Source: "Genesis Translation." The Rosetta Project, Internet: <http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=CCT&doctype=gen&version=0&scale=six> January 19, 2006.
Originally from: The Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, translated into the Choctaw Language. New York: American Bible Society, 1867.

Choctaw alphabet

a	b	ch	e	f	h	i	k
[a]	[b]	[ʧ]	[e, ɛ]	[f]	[h]	[i, ɪ]	[k]
l	hl	m	n	o	p	s	sh
[l]	[ɬ]	[m]	[n]	[o]	[p]	[s]	[ʃ]
t	u	v	w	y		ai	au
[t]	[ʊ]	[ə]	[w]	[j]		[ai]	[au]

Note

• A, I, O, and U occur both oral and nasalized. Nasal vowels are indicated by underlining.

 

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