Letter T'
Letter t' is a glottalized or ejective sound. It it pronounced like t except with the vocal folds tightly closed so that air is released with a sudden burst or popping sound. Tanacross t' occurs only at the beginning of a syllable.Click on a video below to see and hear Mrs. Irene Arnold pronouncing words with T'.
t'áath cottonwood
delt'êl the red one
t'int'eh you are
Sentence contrasting t and d and t' at the start of syllables.
Téł delt'êl. The socks are red.
Tanacross contains six consonants which are written with an apostrophe in the practical orthography: tth', t', ts', tl', ch', k'. These are the so-called glottalized or ejective sounds. They are produced using a glottalic airstream, made by keeping the vocal folds tightly together until after the stop is released. These sounds only occur syllable initially.
Note that the apostrophe by itself represents a glottal stop, a distinct consonant which is not an ejective. When it is necessary to differentiate in the practical orthography between an ejective and a sequence of consonant plus glottal stop, a hyphen is employed. Thus, neek'eh 'our tracks', with an ejective k', versus nek-'ęh 'I see it' , with a sequence k plus glottal stop '.
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