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Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.
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cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/217784
Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.
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My closest attempt at pronouncing that:
as written it should be pronounced
shw-meth-quey-em-ass-em
where the shw is throaty - is it different because of the language?
are you thinking because of the use of IPA characters? because those have defined sounds only within the IPA.
Is this not IPA? I thought the article said it was
it’s the alphabet the BC first nations use. it uses similar characters but not with ipa pronunciations.
TIL - thanks