Welcome to the Haisla Talking Dictionary
This Webonary version of the Haisla Talking Dictionary represents a compilation of:
- 4000+ words and 2000+ sound files collected from the Rapid Word Collection Workshop
- 8000+ words and 5000+ sound files from a web dictionary published by Emmon Bach in 2016 (Internet Archive link)
The work is ongoing and the current online dictionary has a number of duplicate entries, spelling variants, etc. Feel free to use the comment mechanism to indicate problems that you find.
Use the Links menu for additional resources to learn Haisla.
The Rapid Word Collection Workshop
The Rapid Word Collection Workshop was held in August 2020 in the town of Kitimaat. Click on the links to these news articles and video for more information:
- Haisla Nation Dootilh magazine - Getting a Word In - August 2020
- Northern Sentinel newspaper article - Haisla reclaim their native language through word collection workshops- May 4, 2021
- APTN news story Haisla Nation running workshops to document 10K words to preserve language - June 29, 2020
WE WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE PRIOR DICTIONARY AND GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT WORK INCLUDING:
ʼEwiksisdaudsiʼu! Put it into Haisla! English to Haisla Wordlist - by Emmon Bach
Principal Co-editors:
Fiona Campbell
Rose Robinson
Magnus Duncan
Patricia A Shaw
Regine Koroma
Don Stewart
Vera Wilson
Principal Consultants:
Magnus Duncan
Rose Robinson
Amelia Grant
Samson Ross
Kay Grant
Mike Shaw
Jeffrey L Legaic
Irene Starr
Gordon Robertson
Don Stewart
Dora Robinson
Vera Wilson
Haisla Talking Dictionary © 2021 Haisla Nation®
