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I am sorry that yesterday's Word of the Day was not as clear as I had planned it to be. I want to express that Klamath is a very learnable language. No language is easy. Any person who wants to learn another language must try hard. Being able to make sentences is the very...

By making questions, applying verbal suffixes and changing out the nouns in the sentence for other nouns, any person can make a vast number of sentences.  I will give you one example of a sentence with MANY possible sentences. That sentence is: ni yayna sle-a-my...

We are going to continue with sentences structures that will provide many sentences. It may seem obvious but the next sentence structure is: ni ____ sle-a. I see _____. In the blank we can put any noun that can be seen. Even pronouns so long as we use the object form of that...

We are going to focus on structures that will maximize the number of sentences we can make. we are going to start with dwa i sanauli-what do you want? dwa i sanauli is a question but by adding one word-a verb we drastically change the question. As an example. we will use one...

Today we will continue with and complete the verbal suffixes. In today's suffixes is one of only a few specifically Modoc suffixes. Like yesterday our beginning sentence will be: ni lilhanks domna. I hear the deer. 1. The suffixes are : -yega and -tampka. Their meaning is to...

Today we will continue with the verbal suffixes we began the other day. The starting sentence is: ni lilhanks domna. I hear a deer. By adding suffixes to verbs we will examine the changes that take place in the sentence we are using. 1. The suffix is -ok. This suffix explains...