Appendix:Choctaw orthography
Appearance
IPA | Linguistic transcription |
CBTC[1] | Mississippi | Traditional | Byington/Swanton | |
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Vowels | ||||||
a | a | |||||
i | i | |||||
o | o | |||||
Long | ||||||
aː | aa | á | á, ā | a | ||
iː | ii | í | í, ī | i, e | ||
oː | oo | ó | ó, ō | o | ||
Nasal | ||||||
ãː | a | ą | a am, an |
aⁿ am, an | ||
ĩː | i | į | i im, in |
iⁿ im, in | ||
õː | o | ǫ | o om, on u um, un |
oⁿ om, on uⁿ um, un | ||
Lax | ||||||
ə | a | ʋ[2] | ạ | |||
ɪ | i | |||||
ʊ | o | u | ||||
Consonants | ||||||
b | b | |||||
tʃ | ch | č | ch | |||
f | f | |||||
h | h | |||||
k | k | |||||
l | l | |||||
ɬ | lh | ł | hl, lh [3] | ł, lh [4] | ||
m | m | |||||
n | n | |||||
p | p | |||||
s | s | |||||
ʃ | sh | š | sh | |||
t | t | |||||
w | w | |||||
j | y | |||||
ʔ | ' | ∅ |
- ^ Choctaw Bible Translation Committee
- ^ Substituted with 'v' depending on typesetting/encoding constraints.
- ^ The former is used before a vowel; the latter, before a consonant. The intervocalic use of <hl> conflated the common consonant cluster /hl/ with /ɬ/.
- ^ Dictionary editors John Swanton and Henry Halbert systematically replaced all instances of <hl> with <ł>, regardless whether <hl> stood for /ɬ/ or /hl/. Despite the editors' systematic replacement of all <hl> with <ł>, the digraph <lh> was allowed to stand.