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you don’t know real pain until you try to type Klallam text on tumblr on an ipad

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A Year in Language, Day 126: Klallam Klallam is a Salishan language of the Pacific Northwest, related to Saanich which was covered in a prior post. Like Saanich it is also a language I know of through my old professor Timothy Montler who has worked with members of the tribe to produce a published grammar and dictionary of the language. Klallam is currently considered extinct as the last native speaker died in 2014, though there are a handful of second language speakers and a desire to revitalize the language. Like other Salishan languages Klallam is polysynthetic, inflecting and compounding words to a high degree, and has a large consonant inventory including glottalized consonants, labialized consonants, and lateral fricatives (kind of like a “l” and an “s” fused together). Klallam makes ample use of reduplication, normally targeting just the first syllable of first consonant of the root, for a wide array of grammatical functions. With the right roots and inflection Klallam can construct words with consonant clusters to rival those of Slavic and Caucasian languages, for a good example I recommend this page of tongue twisters, especially the last one: http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Klallam/kttd.htm (click the text to hear a recording).

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Made an AutoHotKey script for typing Klallam letters. I'm not sure if it's possible to upload the actual script to Tumblr, so I'm just gonna post the raw text; copy/paste it into a script and it should work fine.

`::Send "ʔ" ' & a::Send á ' & c::Send c̓ j::Send č ' & j::Send č̓ ' & e::Send é o::Send ə ' & o::Send ə́ ' & i::Send í g::Send kʷ ' & g::Send k̓ʷ r::Send ɬ ' & r::Send ƛ̓ ' & m::Send m̓ ' & n::Send n̓ b::Send ŋ ' & b::Send ŋ̓ ' & p::Send p̓ ' & q::Send q̓ d::Send qʷ ' & d::Send q̓ʷ z::Send š ' & t::Send t̓ ' & u::Send ú ' & w::Send w̓ x::Send {Text}xʷ f::Send {Text}x̣ v::Send {Text}x̣ʷ ' & y::Send y̓

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I found a way to type Nəxʷsƛ̓ay̓əm̓úcən text on Android! There's a custom keyboard app called Le Face that lets you just copy and paste letters into a custom keyboard, so I put all the Klallam alphabet on it. Interface isn't perfect but it works.

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