EP: Kima tʉhkaki!/Come eat!
Channel: Comanche Nation Language Department
Date: 03/08/2020

Hi all! Here is a high frequency phrase to supercharge your language use. High frequency phrases are phrases you use all the time and help to increase your use of language, especially at home, while learning.

Here we have speaker Puhayʉtsʉ (Geneva Woomavoyah Navarro) saying "Kima tʉhkaki!" (Come eat!) three times. This is how you would say it to only one person. (There are different ways to say it to only two people [dual] or three or more people [plural].)

Kima tʉhkaki!
Kima tʉhka-ki!

Kima (come)
tʉhka- (eat)
-ki (come towards the speaker)

This could be translated as Come eat! or also Come and eat!

Notice the t in tʉhkaki is a different color. This is a case where the t changes to the Comanche 'r'. Listen carefully to the speaker and then...

Listen, repeat, and practice!
And remember the only way to do language wrong is to not do it at all!