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A grammar of Pite Saami, 2014

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3.1 Consonants<br />

(33) /trotnik/ drodnik 3<br />

[trot̚nikʰ] ‘queen\nom.sg’<br />

(34) /klaːsːa/ glássa 4<br />

[klaːsːa]<br />

‘ice.cream\nom.sg’<br />

[0377]<br />

[0529]<br />

The voiceless singleton plosive phonemes are postaspirated word-finally 5 as<br />

[pʰ tʰ kʰ], as in examples (35) through (37). This is also the case across an internal<br />

compound boundary, as in (38). 6<br />

(35) /orːo-p/ årrop<br />

[orːopʰ]<br />

‘be-1pl.prs’<br />

(36) /pora-kit/ buoragit<br />

[pʊ͡ɔrakɪtʰ] ‘good-advz’<br />

(37) /iktok/ iktuk<br />

[ikʰtokʰ]<br />

‘alone’<br />

(38) /pɔkʧanit+kɔsːɔs/ båktjanitgåssås<br />

[pɔkʰʧanitʰkɔsːɔs] ‘whooping.cough\nom.sg’<br />

[pit100323a.158]<br />

[pit100323a.213]<br />

[pit100323a.169]<br />

[5993]<br />

When preceding a non-homorganic plosive or affricate, a short aspiration occurs<br />

between the two segments, as in (39) here, and in (37) and (38) above.<br />

(39) /vopta/ vuopta<br />

[ʋu͡opʰta]<br />

‘hair\nom.pl’<br />

[pit080701b.092]<br />

For all three plosive singleton phonemes, the closure is not released when a homorganic<br />

consonant follows; they are then realized as [p̚ t̚ k̚]. Word-internally,<br />

this situation is only found in the consonant center and with a homorganic sonorant,<br />

as shown in examples (40) through (43).<br />

(40) /vaːjpmo/ vájbmo<br />

[ʋaːjp̚mo] ‘heart\nom.sg’<br />

[pit080701b.115]<br />

3 From Swedish drottning.<br />

4 From Swedish glass (

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