Talk:Chickasaw language

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[edit] 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)

any comments regarding this info can be sent to: UOQVNMUEBCOR@spammotel.com

[edit] /ɛ/ phoneme

The article says Chickasaw has an /ɛ/ phoneme, however, I've never heard of this. The letter <e> 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)

[edit] Help?

I have a Chickasaw language dictionary. Could I use it to translate pages on the Choctaw Wikipedia? [1] --Abeg92contribsBoomer Sooners! 22:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)