Klallam Grammar Main Menu Klallam Grammar Basics Grammar Introduction: How to Use This Grammar 1 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 2 Past and Future Tense 3 Basic Speech Acts 4 Nouns and Articles 5 Possessive Pronouns 6 Adjectives 7 Object Pronouns 8 The Preposition and Word Order 9 Negative Words 10 More Negative Words 11 Self and Each Other 12 Questions: ‘Who?’ and ‘What?’ 13 Subordinate Subjects in Questions 14 Questions: ‘Whose?’ 15 Focus Pronouns and Answering Questions 16 Comparison 17 Conjunction: ‘And/with,’ ‘but/without,’ and ‘or’ 18 Questions: ‘When?’ 19 Time Expressions 20 More Time Expressions 21 Time Prefixes 22 Questions: ‘Where?’ 23 Some Place Expressions 24 Source, Way, and Destination 25 Serial Verbs 26 Questions: ‘How?’ and ‘How much?’ 27 While Clauses 28 Adverbial Expressions 29 Intensifier Auxiliaries 30 Conditional Clauses 31 Passive Sentences and Shifting Vowels 32 Lexical Suffixes 33 Collective Plural 34 Possessed Verbs 35 So Then ... 36 Reporting Verbs and Direct Quotes 37 Indirect Quotes 38 Questions: ‘Why?’ 39 Because 40 Cause 41 Speech Act Particles 42 The Actual: To Be Continuing 43 State, Result, and Duration 44 Participant Roles and Middle Voice 45 Recipient, Beneficiary, and Source Objects 46 Reflexive, Noncontrol Middle, and Contingent 47 Activity Suffixes 48 Relative Clauses 49 Verbal Prefixes 50 Movement and Development Suffixes 51 Nominalizing Prefixes 52 Adverbial Prefixes 53 More Demonstrative Articles 54 Objects of Intent, Emotion, Direction, and Success 55 More Reduplication Patterns 56 Interjections 57 Rare Suffixes 58 A Fully Annotated Text 59 Texts to Annotate 60 Conclusion Appendices Klallam Dictionary Klallam-English and English-Klallam sections only

Alphabet and Sounds

30904
The Klallam alphabet is based on a standard set of symbols used in writing many of the Native American languages of the Northwest. Since the Klallam language has several sounds not found in European languages like English, some special symbols must be used to represent these sounds.
Although some of the symbols may be unfamiliar, Klallam spelling is really much easier than English spelling. In Klallam each symbol generally stands for one sound, and each sound has one symbol. This is not true of English spelling where, for example, words like ‘enough,’ ‘cough,’ and ‘dough’ are spelled with letters that are either not pronounced at all or have an unexpected pronunciation.
The following is a list of all of the letters of the Klallam alphabet, shown in their alphabetical order:
     ʔ a c c̓ č č̓ e ə h i k kʷ k̓ʷ l ɬ ƛ̓ m m̓ n n̓ ŋ ŋ̓ p p̓ q q̓ qʷ q̓ʷ s š t t̓ u w w̓ xʷ x̣ x̣ʷ y y̓
The following charts show the sounds of Klallam arranged according to where and how the sound is produced in the mouth. A chart in Appendix A gives the technical linguistic description of each Klallam sound.



 

This page has paths:

  1. Klallam Grammar Montler, et al.

Contents of this path:

  1. Klallam Consonants
  2. Klallam Vowels
  3. Notes on Pronunciation

Contents of this tag:

  1. Quizzes for Learning the Alphabet

This page references: