‘wren’,

easy way to type it:    dzits’ii

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ dzɪtsʼi ],

 then

[ dzɪtsʼi ]

[ dzɪtsʼi ],

 then

[ dzɪtsʼi ]




Instant Phonetic Englishization:  dzits_ee, for Lolly’s version of the word, but dzuhta_ee, for Annie’s. 

Lolly Metcalf’s pronunciation of the ejective in this word is such a light articulation of an ejective so that no one would really know that it is an ejective.  We assume that Jacobs really heard an ejective in this word from Mrs. Peterson. 

 

There are quite a few other examples of the sound correspondence of Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk having the phonetic vowel [ ɪ ] where Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk has a Schwa [ ə ].   

for AMP:   

     dz@ts’ii

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

dzət'si

Modernized:

dzətsʼi

[ dzətsʼi ]   

         &

[ dzətsʼi ]