‘blanket’,
easy way to type it: tl’hai
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Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk
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Americanist Phonetic
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IPA
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[ tɬhai ],
then
[ tɫʼl̩ʰ hai ]
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[ tɬhɑi ],
then
[ tɬʼl̩ʰ hɑi ]
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A
Light Pronunciation of an Ejective: With Lolly’s first time pronouncing this
word, we can not really hear that the word is supposed to begin with an
ejective. Lolly has such a light
pronunciation of the ejective that here is really no popping sound to tell us
that it is an ejective, but we can hear that this is basically a one syllable
word.
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: tl!_hah_ee.
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An
Exaggerated Ejective: For her second time saying the word Lolly gives up trying
to make the word a one-syllable word, even though it really is a one-syllable
word. Instead she shows us that the first
consonant really is an ejective, with the popping sound of an ejective. In the process, Lolly demonstrates that the
lateral ejective [ tɬʼ ] can be made to be a syllable onto itself. Instead of a vowel to make it a syllable, a
syllabic L [ l̩ ] takes the place of a vowel.
The English word ‘little’, when pronounced normally, ends with a T [ t ]
followed by a syllabic L [ l̩ ]. That is
not too far off from how this Milluk word meaning ‘blanket’ starts off.
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for AMP:
tl’hai
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Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk
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Exactly Jacobs’ transcription
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Americanist Phonetic & IPA
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t'ɫhái
Modernized:
tɫʼhái
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[ tɫʼhai ]
&
[tɬʼhɑi ]
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