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The words of Abenakis give direction: fifteen consonants, each always sounded (no exceptions); five vowels; and eleven diphthongs. The g is always hard; ph never sung as f, but rather split into two sounds and syllables as in p’ha-nem (woman); words fewer than three syllables receive the stress on the last, for all others, the stressed syllable falls third to last; when at the end of a word the phonemes -b and -d are sounded with bilabials and alveolar ridge, respectively, to sound -p and -t; j is sounded like ch, and the letters ch have a lingual-dental sound that is softer and more slender; when the same consonant or vowel appears twice, the breath is prolonged. My name, Tabid (remember it sounds like a t).
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