Samala Vocabulary Illustrated

The images on the following pages help you learn Samala vocabulary directly, without English getting in the way. Click on the sound icon to hear the Samala word.
1	Mammals and birds		5	People and manufactured items
2	Other animals		6	Verbs:  Actions
3	Body parts		7	Verbs:  states and conditions
4	Elements and natural features		8	Screen resolution gauge

The sound icons in this section are in place, but they're only activated on the first four pages right now. Check back soon and they'll be live!

Page 6 is set up so that you can test yourself. You'll see directions for using the page; you can click to hear the Samala word and also to see it written out. Check out the example to the right with the picture of the turtle; run the mouse over the space to the right of the speaker icon to see the Samala word.
Most of the images on these pages are nouns — animals, artifacts, geological features, etc. — and most of these are fairly easy to portray. Some of the images represent verbs — words that describe an action or a condition.
Some of the Samala words show up under a bar that combines two images. This could mean that:

	The Samala word has more than one meaning, so it applies to both of the items pictured. For example, qap means both "leaf" and "feather."
		qap

	The Samala word has a wider meaning than the Chumash article pictured, so there's a modern item next to it to show the wider range of meaning. For example, ap refers to the traditional dome-shaped Chumash dwelling, but it means any house, so an image of an ordinary suburban house stands next to the traditional ap.
		ap

	The meaning of the Samala word isn't necessarily clear with just one image, so two related images stand together to clarify the meaning. For example, kot means "to break," so there are pictures of two different objects breaking.
		kot
Page 8 has a gauge in case you need to check your screen resolution.