‘finger’, toe’,
easy way to type it: suuwaehl
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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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[ suwǽ·ɫ ],
then
[ suwǽ·ɫ ]
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[ suˈwæˑɬ ],
then
[ suˈwæˑɬ ]
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: soo_whaa_hl, with the second part sounding
like the English word ‘whack’, minus the ck, but going together with the
third part to sound like the end of the English word ‘path’, except that the
tongue is in position to end the word like the English word ‘pal’.
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Stress
as a Stylistic Matter in Milluk: The
fact that that Lolly Metcalf’s pronunciation of this Milluk word seems to have
stress on the second syllable as we hear it in this interview segment and the
fact that Annie Miner Peterson’s pronunciation has stress marked on the first
syllable are two facts that support what we believe about stress in Milluk. We think that the placement of stress in
Milluk is just a stylistic matter. Stress
in Milluk evidently does not distinguish one Milluk word from another. In other words, and getting technical about
it, we have lots of good evidence with words like this that stress is not
phonemically distinctive in Milluk.
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for AMP:
suuwaehl
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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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súwɛ·ɫ
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[ súwæ·ɫ ]
&
[ suˈwæˑɬ ]
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