Talk:Chickasaw language

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not sure how these would fit in
i'll plop it here and leave it to the more learned folks to figure out the layout. but, that being said, here are a few more tidbits (i've spelled them as i've heard them pronounced. since i've seen only a few short examples of how the words are spelled and it seemed like each of those was different).

saying numbers

1  chufa 2  tuklo (also heard this pronounced "tukalo") 3  tuchina 4  oshta 5  tulapeh 6  hunaleh 7  ohntuklo 8  ohntuchina 9  chukaleh 10 pokoleh 11 pokoleh che chufa 12 pokoleh che tuklo 13 pokoleh che tuchina ... 20 pokoleh tuklo 21 pokoleh tuklo che chufa 22 pokoleh tuklo che tuklo 23 pokoleh tuklo che tuchina 24 pokoleh tuklo che oshta 25 pokoleh tuklo che tulapeh (also heard "bituklo" [maybe from the term "two bits" equalling 25 cents???] 26  pokoleh tuklo che hunaleh ...

example of compounding words:

bird/chicken              akunka infant/offspring          osheh egg                       akunkosheh fried egg                 akunkosheh ahwalaleh

speak/talk                numpoleh "do you speak chickasaw?" chikasha che numpoleh? telephone                 talanumpoleh

a couple of parting shots:

yes                       yehn  (sounds like a sort of nasaly "yeen") no                        keyoh (sounds more like single syllable "kyo" with a weak E between the K and Y)

/ɛ/ phoneme
The article says Chickasaw has an /ɛ/ phoneme, however, I've never heard of this. The letter  is pronounced [i], not [ɛ], so it seems like this may be a mistake. –Benjamin  ( talk ) 18:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


 * hi. [ɛ] is short /a/. it should be clearer now. what's worse is i somehow forgot to write that there are 3 contrastive vowel lengths! thank you – ishwar  (speak)  20:00, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


 * wait. i'm not reading carefully. the 3 lengths are not contrastive. – ishwar  (speak)  20:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Help?
I have a Chickasaw language dictionary. Could I use it to translate pages on the Choctaw Wikipedia? --Ab e g92 contribs Boomer Sooners!  22:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

16
There's a mistake. It says that Chickasaw has 16 consonants. But then the consonant chart lists 18 consonants. This needs to be fixed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Solomonfromfinland (talk • contribs) 22:53, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

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