Appendix:Choctaw pronunciation

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Choctaw pronunciations in Wiktionary entries.

See Choctaw phonology at Wikipedia for a more thorough look at the sounds of Choctaw.

Consonants
IPA	Examples		English approximation
IPA	Traditional	Modern	English approximation
/b/	bok		ball
/tʃ/	chahta		Choctaw
/f~ɸ/	foni		fuss
/h/	hattak, konih		hut
/k/	koni		cold
/l/	lapish		last
/ɬ~θ/	alhpoa		ether
/m/	mahli		must
/n/	nvni	nani	not
/p/	pokkoli		puck
/s/	sakli		fast
/ʃ/	shunshi	shoshi	shall
/t/	takkon		tall
/w/	wak		water
/j/	yakni		yard
/ʔ/^[1]	ofi vt	ofi'at	the glottal stop in uh-oh
Allophones
/ç/	hohchifo		human
/ɣ/	oka		Like Spanish agua
Pitch accent
á	chokfi ([chókfi])		a high tone on the stress syllable

^ The glottal stop [ʔ] is usually not pronounced. Some linguists purport that all final vowels in Choctaw are followed by [ʔ] or[h].

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