‘She gave birth’,
easy way to type it: tlhhwiiya
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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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[ tɫhwiyá ],
then
[ tɫhwiyá ]
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[ tɬhwiˈyɑ ],
then
[ tɬhwiˈyɑ ]
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: tlhwee_yah.
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We give Lolly credit, so top speak, for pronouncing
an H [ h ] in this word, between the Barred L [ ɫ ] and the W [ w ]. It is not so much that we hear it, as that we
cannot be sure that we are not hearing it.
Jacobs was consistent across different examples of this word in
phonetically transcribing an [ h ] between the Barred L [ ɫ ] and the W [ w ].
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for AMP:
tlhhwiiya
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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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tɫhwíya
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[ tɫhwíya ]
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[ ˈtɬhwiyɑ ]
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