Resources for California Indigenous Language Learning at Home

California Indigenous language resources that families can use to learn their languages at home:

• Hupa www.youtube.com, Kayla Begay, Dining’xine:wh De:sxa:n lessons

• Karuk www.youtube.com, Julian Lang, Conversational Karuk lessons

• Kawaiisu www.memrise.com Kawaiisu Senses, Kawaiisu verb endings, Kawaiisu 
  • Introductions, Asking questions, sounds in Kawaiisu

• Konkow www.konkow.org Konkow Language Resource

• Miwok (Central dialect) www.memrise.com Miwok, Central Miwok Dialect

• Washoe www.facebook.com Waši∙šiw GuwaɁ page
  • www.memrise.com wašiw language

• Western Mono www.memrise.com  “Western Mono Words and Phrases” and “Western Mono Language”

• Yurok www.quizlet.com “James_Gensaw”, Yurok Language Specialist
  • www.youtube.com Yurok Language Program
  • www.facebook.com Yurok Language Program
  • linguistics.berkeley.edu/~yurok Yurok Language Project Online Dictionary

• Wailaki
  • Facebook Page
    https://www.facebook.com/wailakikunnes1/
  • Wailaki Language Page
    https://www.rvlanguageproject.net/?fbclid=IwAR28Zi1Pxo4w9RBh1DJbcoDKyvUzvs65dnpoFIRGH7HJgIri9p714pA15dA

California Language Archive

See Also

“The Way We Live” Reflecting A Year Later

Various languages https://cla.berkeley.edu/california-languages.php

Language endangerment www.emergencemagazine.org

• Menu>Issue No. 5 “Language”>Open Issue>”Language Keepers” Open Experience
• www.youtube.com, Emergence Magazine

Tips to use language at home with your family:

• Spend time every day with your language. 
• Set a timer for 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and each day increase the amount of time that you use the language.
• Turn on a favorite movie, one that your child knows all the lines by heart, put it on mute, and try to translate the movie lines into your language.
• Read a book together using your language.
• Do a puppet show in your language, it can even be based on a traditional story or have your child create a new story and act it out in the language.
• Translate a common nursery rhyme or popular song into your language and try.
• Make labels for household items in your language and place them around the house. 

This list was created in collaboration with our community partners, the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS).