Gwichʼin language

The Gwichʼin langauge (Dinju Zhuh Kʼyuu in Gwichʼin)^[1] is a language spoken by the Gwichʼin people in Canada and Alaska.

Today

Gwichʼin is now an endangered language because most Gwichʼin now speak English.

Sounds

Gwichʼin has a lot of sounds that are not found in English.

Letter	Pronunciation
a	"a" as in Tina
e	"e" as in bed
i	"i" as in bit
o	"ough" as in thought
u	"oo" as in hook
aa	"a" as in hat
ee	"ay" as in may
ii	"ee" as in free
oo	"o" as in go
uu	"oo" as in boot

Consonants

Letter	Pronunciation
b	"p"
ch
chʼ
d	"t"
dr
dh	"th" like in this
ddh	"th" like in eighth
dj
dl
dz
f
g
gw
gh
ghw
h
k
kw
kh
khw
kʼ
l
l/
m
n
nd
nh
nj
r
rh
s
sh
shr
t
tʼ
th	"th" as in thin
tth
tthʼ
tl
tlʼ
tr
trʼ
ts
tsʼ
v
w
y
z
zh	"si" as in vision
zhr
ʼ	like the pause between "uh" and "oh" in uh-oh This letter is a curved apostrophe (ʼ) and not a straight one (').