Basic Mobilian pronunciation

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1 Basic Mobilian pronunciation Any 2 syllable word is accented on the first syllable Any 3 syllable word is accented on the middle syllable 4 syllable words are accented on the 1 st and 3 rd syllable Actual Mobilian speakers, rather than saying I see the dog would probably have said Dog I see English Mobilian Pronunciation Pronouns I You He she it We Vocabulary A meal Afraid All All, Everything(2) Alligator Ally And Apple Arrow Attention! Ax Baby Bad Bad(2) Bad(3) Bag, shot bag, hunting pouch Bat Beads Bean Beans Bear Beaver Bed Big Bird Black Black Drink Black Man Black Woman Blanket Blood Blue Blue Jay Body E-nu A-schno (In conversation often shortened to schno A-lip (In conversation often shortened to lop Poe-schno Een-pah Nuke-show-pah Moe-mee Oh Hah-chun-chee-kay Ah-pay-lah Mee-chah Tah-cone Chey-toh Oh-ski Ho! Cha-fee Hoosh-coosh Oak-foo-loh Chook-mach-shoe Oak-foo-loh Ha-lom-bee-shah Chee-kul-lah Toe-bee Toe-bee Nee-tah Keen-tah Ah-nu-she Chey-toh Who-she Loo-sah Eesch-coh Loo-sah Ha-tak Loo-sah Take Loo-sah Shook-poe Is-seesh Oak-cha-koh Teen-schkee-lah Hock-nee

2 Both Bow Bowl Box Turtle Boy Bread Breast, Cows Udder Brother Brother(2) Brown Bucket Buffalo Bullfrog Buzzard Canoe, dugout, boat Catfish Chest Chicken Chicken Chief, head man Child Chipmunk Circle Cloth Coat Coffee Cold, Ice Copperhead Corn Cottonwood Cougar Council Cow Creek, stream Crow Cutwood Day, Today Deer Doctor, medicine Dog Dogwood Done, gone, finished Dry Duck Dull Eagle Earring East Egg Egg, Baby, Son, Daughter, Young Animal (2) Eight Empty Enemy Tune-clo E-tea Tah-nam-poh Ahm-poe Luke-see-bosh-kah Knock-nee He-me-tah (young male) Pash-kah Pee-sheik Bah-key-she-lee Nak-fee Hoe-lun-fee East oh-chee Yah-noosh Oh-loan-lub-e Shay-key E-tea Kul-ah Nah-key-schwan-ah E-key-she Ah-con-kah Ah-con-kah Mee-coh E-soh Chee-nay-tha Bowl-bow-key Non-tun-ah E-lee-foh-kah Kah-fee Kah-pah-sah Cha-glock-wah Ton-chee Ah-sheem-bul-ah Koh-whee Eye-ah-num-pooh-lee Wak Boak Fah-lah E-tee basch-lee Nay-tak E-see Al-leek-chee Oh-fee Ha-chee-plea-coh Tah-hah She-lah Who-chosh Ah-lok-pok-shoe On-fee Hock-soh bish Tak-kah-lee Hush-e Ah-koo-cha-kah Ah-con-kah Ooh-she (Ooh-she means young or offspring) Poosh-koosh Une-two-chi-nah Ah-low-tak-shoe Ha-tak Chook-mach-shoe (Bad Man)

3 English Enough Fast Fat, Grease Father Feather Few, Not many Field Fire Fire Steel Fish Fish(2) Five Flint Flower Food Foolish Foot For Fork Four Four(2) Fox French Friend Frog Full German Gift, present Girl God, Creator Good Goose Goodbye, farewell Gourd Grandfather Grandmother Great Blue Heron Green Green, Blue(2) Grey Ground Meal (corn meal, etc.) Ground, dirt, soil, dust Gun Gunpowder Hair, fur or feathers Hand Happy Hat Hawk Head Heavy Moeg-lak-shoe (Not a Friend) Ink-lish All-pay-sah Hoe-key Nee-ah In-kah Ah-buuk-boh Lah-wak-sho Hoe-sah-fah Lu-wak Tah-lee Lu-wak (Tah-lee means metal or stone) Nun-nee Schla-shoe Tok-lop-e Tah-sah-nee Pah-con-lee Uh-fah (Same as the verb to eat ) Hock-sool-bah E-yee Pooh-loh E-tea Fah-lak-toe Housh-tah Ush-tah Chew-lah Fah-lawn-chay Moeg-lah Shoe-cut-tea Ah-low-tah All-ah-mah-nah Auf-meek-mah Take He-me-tah (young female) Ah-bah In-kah Chook-mah Honk-hah E-yah Ah-chook-ma-lee E-sea-toh-bah-ta Ah-mah-foh Ah-poke-knee Wah-tone-lock E-nee-tah-fee Oak-cha-koh Hoak-cha-mah-lee Pooh-she Luke-fee Tah-nam-poh Lee-tuk He-she E-bach Uke-fah Shah-poe Bee-yawn-cock Neusch-koh-boh Way-key

4 Hello Here Hickory Hide Hominy Honey Honey bee Horse Horse(2) Hot House How Hummingbird Hungry Hurt Indian Indian(2) Iron Kettle Jerkey, Dried Meat Kettle Knife Laugh Lazy Leg Lie (untruth) Light Located Locust Long Low Male Man Many Marriage Meal (ground grain) Meat Milk Mirror Mistake Mobilian Language Moon More (often used to indicate a superlative) Mosquito Mother Much., many Mush Name New Night Hawk Night, Evening Nine No North A-schlaf Yah-pah Oop-sock Hock-shoot Fan-foo-lah Foe-way Ah-sah-nan-tah Is-sue-bah Shoe-bah Lash-pah Chew-kah Kah-tah-home-e Qwee-coom-clo Hoe-chuf-oh Hoe-two-pah Hah-tak Who-mah (Literally means red man ) Show-vaj Ha-soh-nock Tah-lee Knee-pee Chah-koh-wah Ha-soh-nock Bussh-poh Euke-pah Tah-koh-bee Uf-fee Ah-num-pah Chook-mach-shoe (Bad speech) Ah-lah-lee Ahn-sha Cut-tea Hoh-fah-loh-hay Ah-bak-shoe (literally not high ) Knock-nee Ha-tak Lah-wah Hah-yoh-nee Boo-tah Nee-pee Wak Pee-shiek Ah-pee-sah Bah-shun-she Yah-MAH (stress on last syllable) Hush-e-nay-nock In-shock-lee Sah-poon-tok Chee-ski Lah-wah Ah-shay-lah Hoh-chee-foh E-moan-ah Luke-soh-pah-folk-lee Oh-pee-ah Cha-kah-lee Ache-show Fah-lom-me

5 Not to be (negating) Nothing Now Oak Old One Opossum Or Otter Owl Paint Panther Parents Peach People Pepper Pig Pine Pipe Pistol Pistol Plant Potato Prisoner Tie Pumpkin/squash Quail Rabbit Raccoon Rat Rattlesnake Raven Ready Red Red Oak Redbird Red-headed Woodpecker Rice, Wheat, Rye, Oats River, creek Road, path Rope Sad Salamander Salt Salt(2) Scalp (hair) Scared, frightened, wild Scout Seven Sharp Shirt Shoes Shoot(1) Shoot(2) Ik-show Nah-nock-show E-mah-kah Ok See-pee Cha-fah Shoe-cut-ah Kee-yah Oh-shun Oh-fah Eeesh-tan-cha-hah Koh-e Mah-lock Tah-cone Oak-lah Tea-she-home-e Shoe-kah Tea-yak Ah-shun-kah Tah-nam-pooh-she Tah-lam-boh All-bah Ah-hay Tok-chee Moe-goo-lak-shoe (literally enemy rope ) E-see-toe Koh-fee Chuek-fee Shao-we Pin-tea-chay-tah Sin-two-low Fah-lah Chay-toe Toosh-poe Who-mah Ish-coh-nee Who-she Who-mah Bach-bach Oh-nush Bowk Hee-nah Tak-chee New-con-klo Haash-top-yo-loh-lee Huff-fee Hah-pee Ha-tak Pon-she Nuke-soup-ah Ha-tak Pee-sah Une-two-klo Ah-lok-puh Foe-kah Shoo-loosh Hoh-sah Two-kah-fah

6 Short(1) Short(2) Should Sick Sick(2) Sister Six Skunk Slave/prisoner Sleepy Slow Small, little Small, Little(2) Small, Little(3) Snake Snapping turtle Soft-shelled turtle Soldier Sour, bitter South Spanish Sparrow Sparrow Hawk Squirrel Stand Star Stew Storm Strong Strong(2) Sugar Summer Sun Sunfish Sweet Sweet Gum Sweet, Sugar, Honey, Syrup, (2) Tadpole Tall, long Tattoo Ten Tent Thank You Thing Thing, What, Who, Which(2) This Three Tired To Ask To Be To believe To break To Bring Yus-koh-loh-lee Fah-lah-yak-shoe Chin-touk Ah-bee-kah Two-pah On-take Ha-nah-lee Cone-e U-kah New-fah-chi-ah Ah-chee-bah Ish-kah-tea-nee See-boh-see Chee-toke-shoe Sin-tea Ha-choh-tok-nee Wall-ah-wha Tus-cut-chee-poe-tah Who-me Oh-kah Mah-lee Es-pah-knee-chee Cheun-sah She-key-leak-leak Faw-nee He-key-yah Fee-meek Hoe-nee Ah-pay-lee Cul-loh Pah-lah-mah Huff-fee Chah-pooh-lee (Chah-pooh-lee means sweet) Tof-fah Hush-e Ha-tass-ah Chah-pooh-lee He-kah Cham-pooh-lee Yah-lube-ah Ah-lie-yah Een-chun-wah Poe-koh-lee Ah-tape-ah Yah-koh-kay Nah-nah Nahn-tah Yah-koh Two-chi-nah Hoe-yub-lee Mah-noh-lee Hock-lee Yim-mee Koh-bah-fah Shah-lee

7 To Buy To Care To Chop To Clean To come To Cook To Cut To Dance To Destroy To Die To Dress To Drink To Eat To eat, Food(2) To Feel To Fight To Fly To Get Drunk To Get up, Arise To Get, To Receive To Give To give(2) To Go To Guard To hate To Have To Hear To Hide To Hit To Hunt To Keep To Kill To kill(2) To Know To Lay down To Learn To Leave To lie down(2) To lie down(3) To lie down(4) To Like To Listen To loan, To borrow To love To Love(2) To Make, To Do To Miss To Pick up To Pinch To Pray, Bless To Put on To Put out To Rain Choom-pah Ah-nee Chawn-lee Ka-show-fee Men-tee Hoe-poe-nee Basch-lee Chay-pu-lee Ah-lay-chee E-lee E-lock-she-mah Eesch-coh Uh-fah Ah-pah Ha-show-kle Tee-bee He-kah Hock-see Tawn-nee E-she E-mah Poh-tah Tah-ha (literally done loaned or done borrowed ) Ah-yah Hoe-toe-nee Ah-knee Ah-shah Hock-loh Low-mee Bow-lee Hoh-wet-ah E-mon-chah Uh-bee Ah-bee Ta-nah Tush-tea E-kah-nah Kah-nee-ah Ah-ski Tah-ski Eat-toe-lah Ah-nee-chee Hop-oh-nock-loh Poh-tah Ah-knee-chee Ahn-hole-low Hoh-lee-toe-blee Ace-kah Kla-co-fee I-yoh-wah Chew-neeth-e Ah-bah Ah-num-poe-lee Ah-bake-lee Moe-show-lee Um-bah

8 To rain To Return To Run To See To Seek To Sell To Sing To Sit To Skin To Sleep To Smoke To Speak, To say To Steal To Sway To Swim To Think To throw To Tie To Trade To Travel To Urinate To Walk To Want, To need To Wash To work, labor Tobacco Today Too (also) Town Tree, stick or wood Trouble Truth Turkey Turkey(2) Turkey(3) Turnip Turtle Two Ugly Up, Heaven Very, Really War War leader Warclub Warrior Water Water snake Watermelon Weak Well West Wet When Hoy-bah Fah-lam-ah Be-lee-lee Pee-sah Hoe-yah Con-chee Tah-loo-ah Be-nee-lee Klomb-fee New-see Shun-kah Ah-num-pah Un-coo-pah E-koh-tah Hoe-sho-new-lee Ah-nuke-fay-lee Ahch-kah-chee Tok-chee E-tah-toe-bah Noh-uh Hoe-shun-wah Hock-ah- noh-uh Bun-uh Uh-chee-fah Pay-lee-sah Hock-chew-mach Yah-koh Nee-tak (literally this day ) Ah-tah-fah Tah-mah-hah E-tea Ah-cla-mah Ah-num-pah Chook-mah (Good Speech) Ah-con-kah-chay-toe Fah-kit Tah-key Tun-nee Luke-see Two-klo E-kai-uke-low Ah-bah Fee-nah E-low-tea Tos-ta-nay-gee E-tea Tah-pee-nah Two-skah Oh-kah Nah-naf-ah Shuke-she Koh-tah Im-poe-nah Hush-e Eye-e-toe-lah-ka Lut-cha Kah-knee-oh-mee

9 Where Where is it Whiskey, Rum, Liquor, etc(1) Whiskey, Rum, Liquor, etc(2) White White Man White Oak White Woman Why Wind Winter Witch With Wolf Woman, female Woodpecker Worm Yellow, orange Yellow Jacket Yes Yes Yesterday Young Kah-tea-mah Kah-tea-moh lah-poh-sha Oh-kah Hom-mah (bitter water) Oh-kah Lu-wak (fire water) Hut-tah Ha-tak Hut-tuh Buy-yee Take Hut-tuh Nah-tom-e Mock-lee Oh-nah-fah Al-leek-chee Oak-pooh-low Neen-chee Nah-show-bah Take Bach-bach Hush-weesh Flock-nah Yak-knee Foy Yao Yah-mah Pah-lah-sho He-me-tah