 Our Dene social language, who are always were, our Dene social language is complex. We have many dialects when we come to the Turtle Island. The Dene social language lived on the coastal shores of the Turtle Island. We have over 20 dialects in the Dene social language across the country. In Saskatchewan we have the two dialects. My relatives that live in Bradley, Fond du Lac, Stoney, they speak the K dialect. I speak the T dialect. When I say water, it's not other than that. Cool, don't you? Yeah, too. Yeah. And sometimes I say cool. Some people, and I say too. Yeah. I'll tell you a little funny story about my grandma. My grandma, she doesn't speak any English. Blanket, they say tile. And material, you say you. So my grandmother is making a blanket for one of her grandkids, and she's just running out of material to make her blanket. So she goes to the Hudson Bay Company, and there's this young little white boy that just come to Pachanac for just a few weeks. So my grandma goes to the store by herself, because she didn't have anybody to interpret for her. So she's looking around and up the aisles, and she's looking, and that little young man, he looks at her and he says, Mrs. Estalsene, how can I help you? My grandma looks at him and says, I think he must understand a little bit of Dene. So she looks at him and says, I want you for a tail. So our language is really complex, but when you translate it, it literally means something different, you know? When you say, back as such as a table, when I literally translate it, it means something you eat off of. Yeah. Chair, Dachshana, something you put your butt on. You just described it. The word T-S-A needs cap or hat. T-S-A with a nasal sound, sound, it means beaver. So you see that the word, you know, T-S-A is short, ah, you know? T-S-A with a nasal sound, sound, you just breathe it through your nose. And T-S-A with a high tone is sa, it's long, ah? So it means beaver. So you see our language is not too complicated, it just sounds funny sometimes. In our language, the seasons, up north, ah, ha-ee, that's how you say it too, ha-ee, winter, ha-ee. Tuk-e, ku-tuk-e, and t'ya, ten. Breaking up of ice, that was it, Dianna, you know, right here. Nassu-ah. Nassu-ah. See the forespin, we have like six seasons in Dene, and that's Tuk-e. And then ah, sene, summer. And then before summer, Dene-ah, There's another season, that there are. Haidt-Azi means fall. So we have not the four seasons, but sometimes we can do the six seasons in Dene. In Dene-Sochine language, we have the Dene-Sochine. In the middle we say Nihal-Cene, which means the creator. He created all of us. Nih, he created. And Chantie, Nuta-Yine, which... Everybody speaks the same language. Even the Navajo people in the states, there's a legend, not a long time ago, that two brothers left up here, but one of them went down to the Navajo Reservation, and that's where now, you know, when they come to visit us, we understand what they're saying. They do the different things differently a little bit. So these are the words that we say are words. When we speak about a spirit in Dene-Sochine language, everything has a spirit. We see our physical self, and that our emotional self, Nuhenie, Nuda-Yine, Nuh means our. It's like in Cree, when you say my sister, my, you know, our brothers, you know, we say, when I say my brother, I say so, you know, so nara. But when I say that so nara is my older brother, and when I say my little brother said chale, we say. And if I say enne, which means my mother, you know, and then when I say your dad, you know, enne-ta, you know, and our dad, Nuhu-ta, you know, our father, yeah. The word in Dene is not that complicated. The Dene-Sochine language, ye-ya, means spirit. Ye-dari-ye, which means the creator. Ye-ya. Yah-kot-inne. Yah is the angel. Yah-koth. Yah-koth means cloud. Yah-ki, means he or she is speaking. Almost sounds, almost the same, huh? Yah-e, heaven. So, when we say the words in Dene, let's say like the colors, we say del-tok, del-zen, del-kos, del-kai. D-e-l means blood in Dene. So, when you say del-kos, del-kai, del-zen, del-tok, is we're all related of the four nations. It doesn't matter what color you are. Just like in English, heart and head, when we say, you know, h-e-l-r-t, he, art. When we literally, you know, head, h-e, art, he, art. The word he, that's like yah, and ye. You see, like my sweetheart, not my sweet head. Ye. So, it's, when we say that in our language, we just say the one word, just like I'm telling you, just by saying del-kai, del-zen, del-kos, del-tok. When I was teaching my little kindergarten class, you know, so I was teaching them all the colors, so that my little five-year-old, little nephew, he goes home to his mom and dad at lunchtime and he says, his dad says, what did you learn today? And he says, oh, we learned about colors all in Dene, so his dad says, can you tell me the colors? He says, del-del-del-zen, del-kos, del-kos, that guy, he says. And so it doesn't, that's not how you say, you know, white. You're not saying that properly. No, daddy, that's the way Mrs. Randall's taught us, it's that guy, not that guy, you know. So you have to really pronounce your words and how you say, you know, the words that you're teaching the children.