COMANCHE NATION LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Nahmaʔai Tanʉ Nʉmʉniwʉnʉ̠
Let's All Speak Comanche Together
Online Translation Request Forms
(Comanche Tribal Members)
Planning & Development Update
Published April 20, 2019
Through the efforts of our Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee and the Comanche Nation Language Planning Group, the Comanche Tribal Council voted to approve the planning, development, and implementation of a new Comanche Language Department for fiscal year 2019. The department was slated to begin in October 2018 and now we are on the road to the revitalization and reclamation of the Comanche language.
Comanche Language Survey
Published April 20, 2019
ATT: Comanche Tribal Members
Please take a little time and fill out our online survey about language. Your participation is greatly appreciated and you by taking the survey you will be entered to win a fabulous prize! Drawing will be held on May 17, 2019. Your responses play an important part in helping us to do language planning and development. This survey will ask you about the following: attitudes about language, thoughts about our alphabet, motivation to learn, barriers to practice and fluency, and how you feel identity is related to language.
Partners
Comanche Language & Cultural Preservation Committee (CLCPC)
NAC Chapter 1918
CN Childcare
SIA
CN Historical Preservation
IT / Media Division
Comanche National Museum
CN Higher Education
CN Youth Program
Early Childhood Development Centers
Comanche Speakers / Teachers
CN Workforce
Memrise App Update
Published May 3, 2019
The memrise online app is continually being updated with new words and lessons. It is a great learning tool created by Dr. Kathryn Pewenofkit Briner.
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Our latest videos feature the work of Billie Kreger and Patricia Bread. The story is an old Comanche story about Kwasi Naboo Kasakatu, the flying snakes with wings. The first video is the story told in Comanche. The second video has Billie Kreger giving the translation.
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