‘salmon’,

easy way to type it:    silgwa

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ sɪ́lgwa ],

 then

[ sɪ́lgwa ]

 then

[ sɪ́lgwa ]

[ ˈsɪlɡwa ],

 then

[ ˈsɪlɡwa ]

 then

[ ˈsɪlɡwa ]




Instant Phonetic Englishization:  sill_gwah, for Lolly’s version of the word.  

Annie’s gotted g is made farther back in the throat. 


A Quick Way to Say Salmon:  In this interview segment, we hear Lolly say [ ɡæ̆læ̆k ] twice.  Actually she says it three times, but the third time got left out of the sound file that we currently have online.  This word is evidently a quick way of saying ‘salmon’ in Milluk.  

In our writing system for easily typing words, it can be written as / gelek /.  

for AMP:  

     silg.wa

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

sílg̣wa

Modernized: sílɢ̣wa

[ sɪ́lɢ̣wa ]   

         &

[ ˈsɪlɢwa ]