Re: TB - Yaquina

--- In iris-talk@y..., storylade@a... wrote:
 
"Someone, PLEASE-------explain what the "5" means.  I know Yaquina is 
a '10'."


Betty, if you will permit a guess---unless the "5" is an artifact of 
font and program differences---is that it is a symbol being used for 
a phoneme not in our set for English.  Various non-IndoEuropean 
languages use clicks and stops and almost gargle sounds in words.  
Some even have clicks of tongue and teeth.  In this case, where Dave 
Silverberg reproduced what he found in his source, the Native 
American "quih" syllable may have had some odd stop or consonant at 
its end, perhaps a "glottal stop" of some sort--I was only half 
kidding when I said "between a gargle and a choke."  To those 
probably Hudson Bay fur trappers who reduced the name to letters we 
use it still would have sounded nearest to Yah-KWIN-uh of anything we 
could pronounce.  Now, watch my face turn red when Dave comes back 
and says it wasn't a five at all.....

Neil Mogensen  z 6b/7a near Asheville, NC


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