Xixinaghiłjit. They used to be scared of it. Told by Hannah Maillelle in Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 12, 2004. (words added for clarification), {false start}, [notes]
	Recorded by Alice Taff. Translated and transcribed by Hannah Maillelle, Donna Miller MacAlpine, Edna Deacon, Louise Winkleman, and Alice Taff.

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	Go Jimmy vito', yigginh,
	Jimmy's dad, that one,

	Willy Golillie vito' yił,
	and Willy Gollillie's dad,

	xiłdi divanh sre' xiviyił dit'anh.
	I don't know the other person who went with them.

	Yitdong, gits'i'in, gits'i'in xitodił tux,
	Long ago, going hunting, when they were going hunting,

	ogh gixithdla gits'in'.
	they never took anything with them.

	Xiye tiłnol yił gixithdla gits'in'.
	They took nothing to eat with them.

	Xiye enotal yił adinh dixit'anh.
	They don't even take bedding.

	Xiłdi, ngido' ndagh sre' xitathdatl tr'eyh yet.
	And, downriver I don't know where they go in canoes.

	Tr'eyh xiye ningido' xitathdatl.
	They go downriver in canoes.

	Nałt'an sre' xidelanh.
	I don't know how many there are.

	Xiłdi, xilts'in' xiyił,
	Then, in the evening, then,

	gits'i'in q'uxididał ts'i, go dixit'anh.
	when theyʼre hunting, here's what they do.

	Xiłts'in' xiyił xenoxiłdi,
	In the evening (dinner time), where they're going to camp,

	niq xinedatl.
	they paddle to the shore.

	Didlang chux, tr'ine, xindighi'o.
	A big spruce, it is said, is standing there.

	Xiłdi, iy yughi yix xiłdi,
	Then, under it,

	"Tr'enoheł," xi'ne ts'in'.
	"We'll camp," they said.

	Xiłdi,
	Then,

	xixidił q'un iy yughi yix.
	they make a fire below it.

	Yit xiłdi, q'un nedz xididltth'e.
	There then, they're sitting around the fire.

	Xiyił tsighiłde'on'.
	Then it gets dark.

	Tsighiłde'on' xiyił,
	It gets dark, then,

	xivo diq xits'i,
	up above them (in the tree),

	gatidlneth, dalnedh.
	it starts to hoot, an owl.

	Xiłdi, xinaxidilighusr ine',
	Then, they were talking but,

	"Xa'," niłughi di'ne.
	"Listen," they say to each other.

	Xiviyił,
	Then,

	yigitadhizreyh.
	something is starting to call someone.

	Yigezreyh.
	Something is calling someone.

	Yixi q'un nedz didltth'en yi'ezreyh.
	Those who are sitting around the fire it's calling by name.

	Ts'i dalneth.
	Then it hoots.

	And xiłdi go, go notin,
	And then those, those two,

	xividizrel ts'in'.
	it didn't name them.

	Yuxudz xo'in che dalnedh che ixinałjit,
	The reason they're afraid of that owl

	iy gezreyh dixo'in.
	is because it calls the names.

	Xiłdi,
	Then,

	uxitin yixividizreyh hin,
	the ones that it names,

	q'a yit,
	in a little while,

	dughin xidiyoq.
	they die.

	Xingo yiggi, notin, Golillie,
	Meanwhile those, two, Golillie,

	and go Jimmy vito' yił,
	and Jimmy's father,

	yan' ngiłnga ts'i xiviyetr tr'ighela'.
	only those two lived a long time after.

	Yuxudz xo'in,
	That's why,

	dalnedh,
	owls,

	ixinaghiłjit xinayh tux.
	they were afraid when they talk.

	Yeah?

	(JD) Yeah.

	Yuxudz xadidhisne ts'in?
	Am I saying it right?

	(JD) Mhm.

	-
	The following is included as a rare example of conversation in Deg Xinag. It is not well reviewed or translated.

	Ndadz che?
	What else?

	Noxandhiginix xiditasneł ts'in'.
	I forget what I was going to say next.

	Gilegik it'anh che ist'anh q'odet.
	There's a paper I had a while ago.

	(JD) Ngo.
	Well.

	(KH) Nda sre' ningiłcheth.
	I don't know where you put it.

	Yiq'i titlcheth iy.
	I put it right here.

	Do you see my paper around here?

	ENGLISH CONVERSATION

	Nda', xiday iy?
	Hand it to me, where is it?

	A iy.
	That one.

	A iy, bag huh, blue bag.
	That one, blue bag.

	Xiday iy, si-blue bag?
	Where is my blue bag?

	Xiday sre'.
	I don't know where it is.

	Voqo xenatl'eł.
	I'll look for it.

	Ang yix.
	Down there.

	Ndadz itl'ux?
	What did I do with it?

	Sriłti nitltthonh yivandhiginix.
	I hide it and I don't remember.

	Gan a iy tił tr'initltthonh?
	?

	I don't know, gan qul iy?
	I don't know where it's gone to. (?)

	Viqul?
	It's gone?

	(JD) Vixedhinix.
	You forgot.

	?
	?

	?
	?

	(JD) Antr'atathdak.
	?

	Dedig xiłghe.
	?

	Nogh xinigidinisdhit.
	Iʼve got a thought. [About anothr story]

	Yo digighe'on'
	There was an eclipse (of the sun).

	Yo digighe'on' dong.
	There was an eclipse long ago.

	Xantr'ixusneg ts'i ine',
	I don't but,

	dinaqay xonet,
	from our home,

	Mama oy tatlo ts'i ngine' taso
	Mama's snowshoes I'm carrying, going upriver

	tritl oqo.
	for willows.

	Yixone'
	Up there

	ne di'onhdi
	where there's an island

	tritl daghitl-'an'.
	I gathered willows.

	Tritl daghitl-'an ts'i,
	I gathered willows,

	q'u'antasiyo.
	I'm coming home.

	Ts'an at, qay ninsiyo ts'i xidonisiyo.
	I get back to the village and go in the house.

	Xiviyił Mom,
	Then Mom,

	"Ithe ngi'egh ndadz dixet'a; q'uth xelan, he'?" siłne.
	"How's the weather; is it cloudy?" she asks me.

	"Ęhę'ę, isrenh," vidisne.
	"No, I don't know," I tell her.

	Go lo che tsighił ditidhi'onh xiq'i?" siłne.
	"Notice that it is getting dark here?" she tells me.

	Vantr'ixusneg.
	I don't know.

	An go, go gitaseł, xiyił,
	I was just going to eat, then,

	yolq'a neyo.
	she went to the window.

	"Yo digitidhi'on yiłche," siłne.
	"There's an eclipse right now," she tells me.

	"Gehon an; nt'ux xitr'al giteheł," siłne.
	"Don't eat; in a little while you'll eat," she tells me.

	Q'i!
	What!

	Xiłdi,
	Then,

	yixi tr'ididltth'e.
	we're sitting in the house.

	"Ng'iegh xinughił'an.
	"Don't look outside.

	Nughił'an in iy no'oy," dina iłne.
	Don't look at the sun," she tells us.

	Xiviyił,
	then,

	Phillip yixo yix dhido ts'i.
	Phillip is sitting in the other room.

	Yinughił'an'.
	He looked at it.

	Vantr'ixuneg yixi.
	We don't know anything about it.

	Ts'an deg xiyił,
	From right then,

	"Sina imo," ditadhne' ts'i,
	"My eyes hurt," he keeps saying, [Hannah uses throughout here -na, the word for 'face', instead of -naq, the word for 'a person's eye'.}

	yixo yix xit'sin'.
	from the other room.

	Dina yił iyisr.
	He's rubbing his eyes.

	Mom, "Ngi'egh xinangił'an, he'?" yiłne.
	Mom, "Did you look outside?" she asks him.

	"No," ne.
	"No," he says.

	Dałine', "Ngi'egh xinangił'an, he'?" yiłne.
	Even so, "Did you look outside?" she asks him.

	"Yuxudz xo'in 'n an a dindiyoq," yiłne.
	"That's why it happened (that your eyes hurt)," she tells him.

	Ts'in' ndadz sre' diyighił'an.
	I don't know what she did for him (to heal his eyes).

	Ts'an {yith} yixi,
	So, around there,

	{n} ngiłghath ts'i xighe'o xiyił
	a long time it was after that until

	xełedz nixindli'an'.
	he could see well.

	"No'oy nangił'an' dixo'in 'n a ngina imo ghela'," yiłne xiłdi.
	"You looked at the sun, that's why your eyes hurt," she tells him then.

	Yo digighe'on,
	The eclipse,

	that time, March dong.
	that time, March time.

	Yit dong,
	Long ago,

	xiyo digi'oyh tux xiyił,
	during an eclipse,

	xixinaghiłjit.
	they used to be scared of it.

	Che xantr'isrixuneg.
	And they didn't know anything

	Xantr'ixuneg ghiluq ts'i.
	They didn't know anything, poor things.

	Yo digi'oyh xiyił,
	The eclipse then,

	xixinaghiłjit.
	they were scared of it.

	Yiq'i itsa'a ghiluq ye,
	Those little grandmas, dear things,

	yanxiditl'eyh.
	they got dressed up.

	Xiłdi q'unagh che xolał.
	Then they take their lamps with them.

	There was, xanxixałchith ts'i xiyił,
	There was, they tied their waists, [Tied with a belt, or handkerchief to keep sickness away because sickness rises up from the ground.]

	qay xonogh xidodił xiłdi.
	they circle the village.

	Xiłdi,
	Then,

	{No'oy, I mean}
	{The sun, I mean}

	"Dołt'ol dina xunik q'utr'idał," xi'ne ts'i.
	"We are going to visit the man in the moon," they'd say.

	Q'uqay xinoxidodiłdi xizro.
	Around the village they'd walk that's all.

	Ndadz sre'
	I wonder

	xiy yixo nigin itl'e xathdatl.
	if they went to see him.

	(KH) Ndałonh.
	Maybe.

	Diyin yi,
	Those medicine men,

	ngidiq, giłigginh,
	up there, one of them,

	idiyinh ts'i xiłdi,
	he's making medicine then,

	iy no'oy
	that sun,

	ghinadhiyo.
	he went (there).

	Ghinadhiyo xiyił,
	He went there, then,

	yixi niq'udhiyo
	he went up to visit

	No'oy Dina'.
	the Sun Man.

	Dina
	The man

	nuq yuxudz q'u'ałchith, tr'ine, digixiyh yix.
	back there he's rolling around, it is said, (in) his (underground) winter house.

	Imo ngilanh ts'i.
	He is sick.

	Xiłdi iy xinixondidił ts'i xizro ts'in'.
	Then they just visit him, that's all.

	Q'agh tth'antididił.
	They go right back out.

	Ngi'ot tthał yiq xiłdi, niło xiq'odz,
	In the porch then, on both sides,

	viye xethdl'o xiyit'a che longh.
	there were lots of containers filled with things.

	Giłiggi oqo, tr'ine, xititrik ts'i.
	Each person, it is said, quickly grabbed (one).

	Q'agh nixididił.
	They go back.

	Q'idughitux ginaggad yił ixindli'ox,
	Sometimes they grab (a container) with mosquitoes,

	ixindli'ox.
	they grab it.

	Q'idughitux che,
	Other times,

	nginixi q'udidal yił
	those that walk around back in the woods,

	yiggiy iy,
	those,

	How you say,

	mink?

	(JD) Tuxgedr.
	Mink.

	{Oh, tux...} Tuxgedr yił,
	And mink,

	ye dhidlo xiyił
	a container with them,

	nixałteyh.
	they carry it (like a packsack).

	Tuxgedr yeg viye dhidlo yił nixałteyh.
	The mink's spirit in a container they carry it.

	Xiłdi q'idughitux che diginaggad
	Then sometimes mosquito's

	yeg viye dhidlo hiy nixałteyh, tux xiłdi yuxudz sanh tux getiy.
	spirit container they take it, then during the summertime (there's) really lots (of mosquitoes) more than ever.

	Ginaggad yuxudz ałtitl, tr'ine,
	Mosquitoes are scolding, it is said,

	xiviyił.
	with them.

	Yixgitsiy gho'in
	Because of crow/raven

	ginaggad xitathdlanh.
	mosquitoes start to come.

	Ginaggad qul ts'i yiggiy yeg yuxudz ngi'egh tthetthing xiyił.
	No mosquitoes around there, outside there (at first).

	Xididiltth'e ts'i dughin gixił'anh.
	They could sit outside working at something.

	Yuxudz yeg, xiviggad dhisno gits'in'.
	Nothing ever bothered them. [No bugs, they don't know anything about mosquitoes.]

	Xiviyił, tr'ine, yixgitsiy,
	All of a sudden, it is said, raven,

	"Ndadz xineg,
	"How nice,

	engtth'idi, ndadz xineg xiq'i xixatołt'ał,"
	in the future, how nicely they'll live,"

	ne ts'i, nginuq tthiq'utadhiyo.
	he says, while walking around back there (in the woods).

	Tthiq'utadhiyo xiyił,
	He's walking around back there then,

	nginixi ginaggad xelanh.
	back there were mosquitoes.

	Xiłdi ginaggad iłchet ts'i yuxudz, idinyaghił tthiyh, tr'ine.
	Then he'd pick up a mosquito and poke it into himself, it is said.

	Xiłdi tr'anidiyo.
	Then he came back out.

	Xiyiggiy gididltth'enh,
	Those people sitting down,

	tthetthing, ghiluq, didltth'enh,
	outdoors, poor things, the ones sitting,

	xiviyił, tr'ine, ginaggad xidath long'.
	with them, it is said, there start to be lots of mosquitoes.

	Xiviyił,
	With them,

	xigho nodasritl-'anh, tri'ne, yiggi yixgitsiy.
	for them he started working, it is said, that raven.

	Xigho tr'ixidiłjik ts'i,
	Near them he's making smudge,

	nginix xiyił tritr yił jid yił.
	back there with rotten wood.

	Tr'andalyayh ts'i uxitiy yił axa,
	He's carrying out those things all together,

	xits'i xidiłjik, tr'ine.
	smudge for them, it is said.

	Iy yi gho'in,
	That's why

	iy yixgitsiy gho'in, ginaggad xethdlat.
	because of that raven, mosquitoes exist.

	Gil yuxudz iy.
	That's all there is.

	Agide.
	That's it.

	Xunik uxisnek.
	The actual events I told you.