{"id":403,"date":"2009-12-29T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T15:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.eastcree.org\/eastcree\/?page_id=403"},"modified":"2017-07-17T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T01:10:35","slug":"plosives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eastcree.org\/cree\/en\/grammar\/sounds-east-cree\/sounds\/consonants\/plosives\/","title":{"rendered":"Plosives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

<\/a>Pronunciation of Plosives (P, T, K)<\/h1>\r\n

East Cree has three plosive (or ‘stop’) sounds. (The flow of air through the mouth is abruptly stopped during the production of these sounds. The air explodes<\/em> out of the mouth when released.)<\/p>\r\n

The letters<\/em> for the East Cree stops are P, T, and K. For the most part, they sound<\/em> like this:<\/p>\r\n

At the end of a word, East Cree P, T, and K often sound like the [ p\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English pill<\/em>, the [ t\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English till<\/em> and the [ k\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English kill<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n
Northern<\/th>\r\nSyllables<\/th>\r\nIPA<\/a><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>
\u14a6\u1431\u144e\u14f2\u1449<\/td>\r\n\"Click <\/strong><\/td>\r\nmiipitisuup<\/strong><\/td>\r\nmii – piti – suup<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ mi – \u02c8p\u026at\u02b0 – sup\u02b0<\/strong>]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u1491\u146d\u1466<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nchaakit<\/strong><\/td>\r\nchaa – kit<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8t\u0283a – k\u026at\u02b0<\/strong> ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u1470\u1483<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nkuuk<\/strong><\/td>\r\nkuuk<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8ku\u02d0k\u02b0<\/strong> ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Southern<\/th>\r\nSyllables<\/th>\r\nIPA<\/a><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>
\u1419\u1438\u1511\u1449<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nwaapaship<\/strong><\/td>\r\nwaapa – ship<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8wap – \u0283\u026ap\u02b0<\/strong> ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u1406\u140e\u1466<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nuuwit<\/strong><\/td>\r\nuuwit<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8u\u02d0t\u02b0<\/strong> ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u14c2\u1505\u1483<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nnisk<\/strong><\/td>\r\nnisk<\/strong><\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8n\u026ask\u02b0<\/strong> ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

Sometimes you can hear two stops in a row in East Cree. In such cases, the first P, T, and K also sound like the [ p\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English pill<\/em>, the [ t\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English till<\/em> and the [ k\u02b0 ]<\/span> in English kill<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n
Northern<\/th>\r\nSyllables<\/th>\r\nIPA<\/a><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140b\u1431\u1426\u1450\u140e\u14d0<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\naapih<\/strong>tuwin<\/td>\r\naapih<\/strong> – tuwin<\/td>\r\n[ ap\u02b0<\/strong> – \u02c8tu\u02b7\u0259n ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140a\u144e\u1426\u1484<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\natih<\/strong>kw<\/td>\r\natih<\/strong>kw<\/td>\r\n[ \u026a\u02d0t\u02b0<\/strong>k\u02b7 ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Southern<\/th>\r\nSyllables<\/th>\r\nIPA<\/a><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140a\u144e\u1426\u1484<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\natih<\/strong>kw<\/td>\r\natih<\/strong>kw<\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8\u028ct\u02b0<\/strong>k\u02b0 ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>
\u140a\u146f\u1426\u1449<\/td>\r\n\"Click<\/td>\r\nakuh<\/strong>p<\/td>\r\nak<\/strong>uhp<\/td>\r\n[ \u02c8ak\u02b0<\/strong>p\u02b0] or [ \u02c8ak\u02b7<\/strong>p\u02b0 ]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

Anywhere else in the word, especially between vowels, P can sound like the B in English bed<\/em>, or like the P in spill<\/em>. T can sound like the D in English den<\/em>, or like the T in still<\/em>. Finally K can sound like the G in English good<\/em>, or like K in skill<\/em>. See the page on plosive voicing<\/a> for many examples.<\/p>\r\n

One major difference between East Cree and English, illustrated in the above examples, is that East Cree uses fewer letters to write stop sounds than does English. For a quick guide to East Cree spelling, see the page on how to write East Cree sounds in the roman orthography<\/a>. For a more in-depth discussion of how to hear and pronounce P, T, and K in East Cree, see the linguistic description of plosives<\/a> and the page on plosive voicing<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

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