Re: transcription questions

On Friday 13 December 2002 10:06 pm, lblissett wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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")
Um...no...that's the sound in 'ow'. /Ou/ or /@u/ is the sond in go/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"