ᎣᏓᎼᏈᎵ
Cherokee
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English automobile.
Pronunciation
[edit]IPA(key): /òːdàːmòːɡʷǐːlĩ̀/, (anglicized) /òːdàːmòːpǐːlĩ̀/
Noun
[edit]ᎣᏓᎼᏈᎵ • (odamoquili)
Usage notes
[edit]- Bilabial stops, such as /b/ and /p/, do not natively occur in Cherokee. As such, when foreign words with these sounds are borrowed into Cherokee, they are adapted as labial velars /ɡʷ/ or /kʷʰ/. Regardless, many Cherokee speakers continue to use the unadapted pronunciation, especially with more recent loanwords.