SENĆOŦEN

SENĆOŦEN conversations

The following recordings are of short conversations between two Saanich elders, which provide examples of fluent SENĆOŦEN speech used to talk about everyday matters. The conversations were recorded during linguistic fieldwork sessions in W̱JOȽEȽP (West Saanich) in 2008 and 2009.

Participants

The following participants can be heard:

Speaker 1 - Ivan Morris Sr.
Speaker 2 - Ray Sam
Fieldworker - Claire K. Turner
Visitor - John Elliott

Audio

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Backpain
Don't disturb the light
Don't slip
Flowers
Visit 1
Visit 2
Waiting for the bus

Transcripts

To download a transcript of the conversations, click on the name of format you would like to access next to the conversation name. Transcripts are available in Microsoft Word or PDF formats.

Backpain [doc] [pdf]
Don't disturb the light [doc] [pdf]
Don't slip [doc] [pdf]
Flowers [doc] [pdf]
Visit 1 [doc] [pdf]
Visit 2 [doc] [pdf]
Waiting for the bus [doc] [pdf]

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