SPEAKING TILLAMOOK

In an effort to preserve the Tillamook language, a group of researchers interviewed Joe Scovell’s maternal grandmother and other members of the Nehalem band of the Tillamook tribe from 1965-72. They eventually compiled a 120-page Tillamook-English dictionary. A

sampling:

Hello, how do you do?
dush-ALL-uh-NOOH-sh

Tomorrow
guh-WISH-guss

Good
duh-HOOTS-nuh

White person
un-OONS

Tillamook (city)
nish-da-TOGgy

The tide is coming in
‘ts-ull-ULL-leel

Source: University of Hawaii, Department of Linguistics