‘elk’, easy way to type it: kits
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Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk
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Americanist Phonetic
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IPA
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[ k̯ɪts ],
then
[ k̯ɪts ]
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[ kʲɪts ],
then
[ kʲɪts ]
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: Pretty much like the English word ‘kits’.
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Palatalized
Consonants Before [ i ] and [ ɪ ]: In the paragraphs of explanation for the interview
segment “Ashes”, we say: “Quite a few of the Milluk words that have a Front K
[ k̯ ], an Ejective Front K [ k̯ʼ ], or a Front G [ g̯ ], which are all
palatalized consonants, have the palatalized consonant occurring predictably
before the vowels [ i ] and [ ɪ ]. This
is a lot like what happens in English, so speakers of English won’t hear much
of anything special about the front (i.e. palatalized) consonants of Milluk
words where they occur before the high front vowels [ i ] and [ ɪ ].” We could write the English word ‘kits’ phonetically
as [ k̯ɪts ], and as [ kʲɪts ] in an IPA transcription, with a superscript J, the
IPA equivalent of a superscript Y.
Speakers of English are not trying to make the k in such words
palatalized. Speakers of Milluk, on the
other hand, can exaggerate the palatalization.
That is something that Lolly does a few times on this website. She does not exaggerate the Front K [ k̯ ] in
this word. However, if you listen carefully to the Mlluk word meaning
‘elk’, you might nonetheless detect a
bit more palatalization with it than if it were actually a word in the English
language.
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for AMP:
kits
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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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k̯íts
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[ k̯ɪts ]
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[ kʲɪts ]
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