qe7tse

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Shuswap

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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qé7tse

  1. father
    Xwexwéyt re swet xwistés newí7s re qé7tses.[4]
    Everyone likes their own father.

References

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  1. ^ Tyler, E. B. and W. Bloxam and Daniel Wilson and G. M. Dawson and H. Lefroy and R. G. Haliburton (1891). "Sixth report of the committee appointed to investigate the physical characters, languages, and industrial and social conditions of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada." Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 60, p. 695.
  2. ^ Kuipers, Aert H. (1974). The Shuswap Language: Grammar, Texts, Dictionary, p. 234. The Hague: Mouton.
  3. ^ Gardiner, Dwight G. (1998). "Topic and focus in Shuswap (Secwepemctsín)." In Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and M. Dale Kinkade (eds.) Salish Languages and Linguistics: Theoretical and Descriptive Perspectives, p. 275. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  4. ^ Lai, I-Ju Sandra (1998). The grammar and acquisition of Secwepemctsín independent pronouns, p. 32. MA thesis, University of British Columbia.