Written By: Martha “Maalhu” Demoski
Edited By: Paul “Naakk’oos” Mountain
Final Editing by: Paula “Adzee” Stickman
Assisted By: Rosa “Kk'odohdaałlno” Peter
Compiled By: Nulato Hills Enterprises, LLC

Support Provided by:
The Endangered Language Fund
300 George Street, Suite 900
New Haven, CT 06511 USA

In an effort to revitalize the Lower Koyukon dialect, Nulato Tribal Council (NTC) searches for funds for projects which bolster the language. NTC successfully procured support from the Endangered Languages Fund of New Haven, CT.
The Lower Koyukon dialect relies on phonetic characters, and certain letters, to create sounds that do not normally exist in the English language. Those characters are as follows:
• Ł – this sounds similar to the combination of tl and of th into one single sound
• ‘ – represents a cut off or splitting of a word to emphasis the letter before it
• aa – sounds similar to “ah” in english
• e – at the end of a word this represents a quick and sharp “ah”
• ee - sounds similar to the y in the word windy.
• K’ – sounds similar to a hard “Kah” sound
In this site, there will be a secondary spelling with the sounds similar to spelling, in parenthesis, in English.