čɛčɛhaθɛč Gilakas’la Welcome

čɛčɛhaθɛč – Gilakas’la – Welcome

čɛčɛhaθɛč

Audio clip of čɛčɛhaθɛč

A welcome greeting spoken in Ayajusem, Island Comox dialect of Ayajuthem.

For the richness of local language understanding please see the KFN website.

Gilakas’la

Audio clip of ‘Gilakas’la’

For the richness of local language understanding please see the KFN website.

A welcome/greeting that means welcome and thank you in Kwak’wala. This language comes from the Kwakwaka’wakw peoples, who also have varying dialects within that language family.  

Wedlidi Speck, one of the Heriditary Chiefs of the E’ikʷsən, shares his understadning of the translation to English as “I share my breath and spirit with yours.” 

Pronounced gay-la-keyus-la

For history, deeper understanding, and revitilazation information about the K’ómoks First Nation language please see the following link to their website, K’ómoks First Nation Culture.