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Tasttine

The Tasttine (also Beaver) are Athapaskan aboriginals whose traditional territory is around the Peace River of Alberta, Canada. They were formerly known as the Beaver Tribe.


Contents
1 Language

1.1 Sounds

1.1.1 Consonants
1.1.2 Vowels

2 Bibliography

Language

Sounds

Consonants

Beaver has 35 consonants:

  Bilabial Labio-velar Post-dental Alveolar Post-alveolar Velar Glottal
central lateral
Stop unaspirated     t     k  
aspirated       tʰ     kʰ  
ejective       t’     k’ ʔ
Affricate unaspirated     ʦ̪ ʦ tɬ ʧ    
aspirated     ʦ̪ʰ ʦʰ tɬʰ ʧʰ    
ejective     ʦ̪’ ʦ’ tɬ’ ʧ’    
Nasal   m     n        
Fricative voiceless     s̪ s ɬ ʃ (x) h
voiced     z̪ z ɮ ʒ γ  
Approximant     w       j    

Vowels

Beaver has 10 phonemic vowels.

   Front  Central  Back 
High (full)  
  		i   u
Less-high (reduced)  
  		ɪ   ʊ
Mid (full) oral e   o
nasal ẽ   õ
Less-low (reduced)  
  		  ɜ  
Low (full)  
  		  a  

Two vowels contrast oral and nasal qualities.


Bibliography

  • Cook, Eung-Do; & Rice, Keren (Eds.). (1989). Athapaskan linguistics: Current perspectives on a language family. Trends in linguistics, State of-the-art reports (No. 15). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 0-8992-5282-6.
  • Story, Gillian. (1989). Problems of phonemic representation in Beaver. In E.-D. Cook & K. Rice (Eds.), Athapaskan linguistics: Current perspectives on a language family (pp. 63-98). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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