<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">LaXayam Kanawi-Laksta!<div><br></div><div>Chxi nayka join ukuk list, and very happy to be here.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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*</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, here to learn, and excited!</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div> <br><div> <div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Papyrus" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Papyrus">Discendo discimus; nihil ex nihilo fit. - "We learn by learning; nothing comes from nothing."</font></p> </div> </div><br></div></body></html>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!