LaXayam

[Doug Barr]

LaXayam Kanawi-Laksta!

Chxi nayka join ukuk list, and very happy to be here.

I'm just starting my study of Chinuk Wawa - I'd always been interested  
in it but hadn't had much access to materials, and the ones I did were/ 
are in the ahnkuttie spelling which I don't find intuitive. Besides  
which, I had wondered about the absence of typical PNW Indigenous- 
language phonemes. Then when I saw some things on the net about Grand  
Ronde Wawa and the phonetic transcription that DOES include those  
sounds, I was again intrigued, so here I am.

I live in Vancouver BC and am something of a language geek, not  
actually sure how many I know the basics of. I just sort of pick them  
up. I do speak a little hEn!q!Emin!Em! (by which I mean Musqueam/ 
Downriver Halkomelem, I hope I'm transcribing that correctly), and can  
make all the required sounds - although not always in the long strings  
of consonants that Salish languages seem so fond of; I have met my  
match and its name is Nuxalk. *grin*

Anyway, here to learn, and excited!

Doug

PS: An odd question, perhaps, but... which syllable takes the word- 
stress in LaXayam? Judging by the ahnkuttie spelling "klahowya" (on a  
side note, where did the "m" go?) I'm guessing the second, but I'm  
confused.

Discendo discimus; nihil ex nihilo fit. - "We learn by learning;  
nothing comes from nothing."


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