{"collection":"folklore-oral-tradition","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_Phonetic_Key/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_Phonetic_Key","id":"wikisource_Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts_Phonetic_Key","license":"Public Domain / CC-BY-SA (see source)","rights_basis":"wikisource_site_inclusion_policy","source":"wikisource","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tlingit_Myths_and_Texts/Phonetic_Key","summary":null,"tags":["Pages_with_translator","Subpages"],"text":"PHONETIC KEY\n\n\u0101 a longer and shorter forms of the Continental a, like a in far\n\u00e2 as in fall\n\u1d00 as in final; a close approximation to u in cut\n\u0113 e longer and shorter forms of the Continental e, like a in fate\n\u00ea as in bell\n\u012b i longer and shorter forms of the Continental i, like ee in street\n\u00ee as in hit\n\u014d o longer and shorter forms of English o, as in flow\n\u016b as in rule\nu as in put\n\u1d58 \u1d52 barely formed o and u sounds; rather qualities of the preceding consonant sounds than independent vowels\nq the velar k, not found in English\ng\u0323 the velar g corresponding to the preceding, not found in English\n\u1ef5 a sound similar to but deeper than the preceding, pronounced by the younger Indians almost like English y\nx the velar spirant, pronounced like Spanish j or German ch\nx\u0323 the palatal spirant, often mistaken for h\nc like English sh in short\ndz as in adze\nts as in sits\ndj like English j and dg in judge\ntc like English ch in church\n\u029fnot found in English, but resembling a rapid pronunciation of t and l, or of k and l\n\u029f\u0323 not found in English, but resembling a rapid pronunciation of d and l\n\u0142 a spirant belonging to the same series as the preceding; not found in English though often represented by thl or hl\nt, d, n, s, k, g, h, w, y approximate the sounds for which they stand in English though the agreement is by no means absolute\nt!, s!, ts!, tc!, \u029f!, k!, q! are similar to t, s, ts, tc, \u029f, k, q, but are accompanied by a catch in the breath which sometimes gives the impression of a pause, and sometimes sounds like a sharp click\nk\u02d9! when k! is pronounced very far forward in the mouth it is sometimes set off in this way, but the distinction between the two sounds is by no means clear\nLabials are found only in a few words of foreign origin","title":"Tlingit Myths and Texts/Phonetic Key","tradition":"folklore-oral-tradition","translated_text":null,"word_count":354}