BC Interior Salish regionalisms in CJ

[Tom Larsen]

David Robertson wrote:
> The more experience I get with these materials, the more I find that they 
> really do contain good information on how folks talked Jargon.  It looks 
> as though they might've said, at least sometimes, [LXuyma].  (Capital L 
> = "barred l", the voiceless lateral fricative.)  
>
> This is neat because it implies at least two BC Interior Salish groups 
> replaced the "plain l" of the original CJ word with their [L], maybe a way 
> of overcorrecting the pronunciation to make it more 'Indian'
Or possibly the voiced [l] just assimilated to the following voiceless [X]?

Tom

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