Re: transcription questions

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From: "Joseph Fatula" <fatula3@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:46 AM
Subject: Re: transcription questions


> > Assuming it has to follow a vowel, then the "h" portion could be
> > represented, if necessary, as a period of voiceless offset to the vowel.
> > How this would look in SAMPA I have no idea. In a quick-and-dirty field
> > situation, it would be enough to write a superscript h before the
> consonant.
>
> I don't know if this is what the original question was regarding, but the
> sound I pictured with "hk" could easily start a word, not necessarily
being
> after any consonant or vowel.
          Yep! "hk" almost always starts the word it's used in. A few
examples:

          (Am I using [aU] right? It should sound like "o" in "go" or "own"
or "toe")

hkchui [hxkTswi] "fun"
hkoth [hxkaT] "man"
hkmotch [hxkmatTs] "itch"
hkojul [hxkaUdZVl] "dead"
hkchuighya [hxkTswighj] "pleasant experience"
hkutwe [hxkVtwe] "among"
hknonnyol [hxknaUnjaUl], refers to a type of psychosocial state, no
convenient translation
hkothkau [hxkaTkO] "father"
hkchkrane [hxkTskrane] "ancestors"
hkdmfah [hxkdmfah] "to blind, to prevent from seeing"
hkqih [hxkqih] "to glitter"
hko [hxkkaU] "to die"
hkoqa [hxkaUqa] "to kill"
hkhyra [hxkhaIra] "flat cleared hill"
hkukchyuwa [hxkVkTsjuwa] "hilly tundra"

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