[Paddlewise] Tlingit pronunciation

    Sorry ..... I did forget to take varying dialects into consideration when
trying to write out the pronunciations.  Some people do put the emphasis on
the first syllable of Tlingit.  


    I am NOT an expert by any means.  We learned key words and phrases only.
I was once told that my pronunciation of words showed that I learned in
Angoon, which meant that some people in other villages/towns considered it
'wrong'.  


    About 'Xootznoowoo' (with underlined 'x') -- I didn't know quite how to
describe the sound.  Maybe I used the wrong description.  It sounds to me to
be very much like the way I was told to pronounce the 'g' in the German word
for morning.  (?morgen?  I don't know how to spell it.)  Maybe that isn't
really a hard sound.  


      


    gladys carter  





PS   I've been interested in the ongoing discussion on alternative spellings
for 'kayak'.  





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