q

Lushootseed

noun

pastəducid

1. The thirty-first letter of the dxʷləšucid alphabet, pronounced as a voiceless uvular stop.

   • The pronunciation is like the "k" in "keep" but with the tongue arching up further back in the mouth.

   Examples: qəlb, qəlx̌, qiw̓x̌

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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. xiii
• 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, chapter 1