y  [j]

Dene Sųłiné, Lac Brochet  -  Phoneme: y [j]  -  IPA: Palatal glide.

Word: yéłk’éth [jɛ́ɬk'ɛ́θ] "shoot it"  -  Speaker: SP9

This is a palatal glide y in word initial position. Segemntation between this sound and the following mid front vowel is difficult and done mostly by formant structure.



 
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