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Kinship Prefixes In Cherokee

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Gvdoda.	Tla sgidoda!	--Agidoda sgo? --V'v, tsadoda.
Udoda hno. Sdidoda.	Darth Vader ginidoda.	Edoda! Sgwasdela!

agidoda: My father	tsadoda: Your father	udoda: His/her father	ginidoda: Our father (2 of us)	sdidoda: Your father (2 of you)	igidoda: Our father (3 or more)	itsidoda: Your father (3 or more)	unidoda: Their father
	gvdoda: I, your father	tsidoda: I, his/her father		sdvdoda: I, your father (2 of you)		itsvdoda: I, your father (3 or more)	gatsidoda: I, their father
sgidoda: You, my father		hidoda: You, his/her father	sginidoda: You, our father (2 of us)		isgidoda: You, our father (3 or more)		gahidoda: You, their father

There are actually even two more forms of this word: ogidoda (our father but not yours) and oginidoda (my father and one other person's, but not yours.) These two forms are not commonly used by younger speakers these days.

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