‘high’, ‘high up’, ‘high up above’’

easy way to type it:    guh

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ guʰ ],

 then

[ guʰ ],

 then

[ guʰ ]

[ ɡuʰ ],

 then

[ ɡuʰ ],

 then

[ ɡuʰ ]




Instant Phonetic Englishization:  gooh for Lolly’s version of the word.  The dotted (uvular) G in Annie’s version of the word is made farther back in the throat. 


Mrs. Metcalf’s first time saying this word, with so much aspiration at the end of it, so that it sounds like it ends with a uvular fricative, may not represent well how this word is really pronounced, so we write it phonetically with the same little superscript H that indicates ordinary aspiration.  Her second and third times saying the word end with ordinary aspiration and exactly match how Jacobs phonetically transcribed Annie Miner Peterson saying the ending of this word, some four times in the Milluk texts.  In one example, Jacobs did not hear the aspiration at the end of this word.   

for AMP:  

     guh

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

g̣uʽ

Modernized:

ɢ̣uʰ   

[ guʰ

         &

[ ɡuʰ ]