15. g and ǧ
Posted: February 11th, 2009, 2:43 amLevel 2 textbook, page 82
g, ǧ
The Lakota g sounds like the g in got.
The Lakota ǧ sounds like the northern French r in Paris. There is no English equivalent.
In Lakota g occurs only before consonants (gl, gm, gn, gw, gy) and ǧ occurs only before vowels (ǧa, ǧe, ǧi, ǧo, ǧu, ǧaŋ, ǧiŋ, ǧuŋ).
Based on the above rule you can easily fill the missing letters in the exercise below. But you can also listen to the pronunciation to get some practice:
1: _našká
2: _í
3: wa_lékšuŋ
4: a_úyapi
5: núŋ_e
6: uŋzó_e
7: šuŋ_íla
8: wa_míza
9: tȟašíya_nuŋpa
10: ho_áŋ
11: wá_ačhaŋ
12: i_mú
13: čhuwí_naka
14: kȟaŋ_í
15: ma_áksiča
16: wičhítegle_a
17: ma_á
18: ó_le
19: wá_lotapi
20: čháŋčhe_a
g, ǧ
The Lakota g sounds like the g in got.
The Lakota ǧ sounds like the northern French r in Paris. There is no English equivalent.
In Lakota g occurs only before consonants (gl, gm, gn, gw, gy) and ǧ occurs only before vowels (ǧa, ǧe, ǧi, ǧo, ǧu, ǧaŋ, ǧiŋ, ǧuŋ).
Based on the above rule you can easily fill the missing letters in the exercise below. But you can also listen to the pronunciation to get some practice:
1: _našká
2: _í
3: wa_lékšuŋ
4: a_úyapi
5: núŋ_e
6: uŋzó_e
7: šuŋ_íla
8: wa_míza
9: tȟašíya_nuŋpa
10: ho_áŋ
11: wá_ačhaŋ
12: i_mú
13: čhuwí_naka
14: kȟaŋ_í
15: ma_áksiča
16: wičhítegle_a
17: ma_á
18: ó_le
19: wá_lotapi
20: čháŋčhe_a