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How do
you pronounce the Chumash names?
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The vowels a,e,i,o,u are
pronounced the same way as in Spanish. The letter x is like x
or j in Spanish, a sort of gutteral kh sound. A special
symbol,  , refers to a
sound midway between the 'i' in 'tick' and the 'u' in 'tuck' (think
of the sound you make when you step on something squishy). The
apostrophe ' represents what linguists call a glottal stop, like the
catch sound your throat makes when you say 'uh-oh.' In most
Barbareņo Chumash words, the stress falls on the next-to-last
syllable.
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