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Lushootseed

noun

pastəducid

1. The first letter of the dxʷləšucid alphabet pronounced as a glottal stop.
   • The pronunciation is like the sound between the "uh" and the "oh" in "uh-oh".

   Examples: ʔal, dxʷʔal, tiʔiɫ

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. xii
• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, lesson 1