‘salt’, ‘salt water’,

easy way to type it:    ma’tsils

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ maʔtsɪ́ls ],

 then

[ maʔtsɪ́ls ]

[ mɑʔˈtsɪls ],

 then

[ mɑˈʔtsɪls ]




Instant Phonetic Englishization:  mah’_tsils, for Lolly’s version of the word with the glottal stop ending the first syllable,

mah_ts!uh_ls, for Annie’s version with the ejective beginning the second syllable.   


See the interview segment “Shirt”.  

for AMP:   

     maats’@ls

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

ma·tʼsə́ls

Modernized:

ma·tsʼə́ls

[ ma·tsʼə́ls

                 &

[ mɑˑˈtsʼəls ]