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Typological summary tone system of low, high, and falling tones, with the falling tone having a contour that runs downward from the high tone to the low tone. Tongass Tlingit had a four-way nontonal system of syllable nuclei which were short, long, glottalized, and “fading” (falling pitch and breathy). e two-way tone system of Northern Tlingit may be evolving into a pitch accent system. Syllable structure in Tlingit is relatively complex, but not as elaborate as found in other languages of the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Je n’ai pu faire que très-peu d’observations sur les parties du discours, vu la difficulté de communiquer des idées abstraites par des signes : j’ai cependant reconnu qu’ils avaient des interjections pour exprimer les setnimens d’admiration, de colère, ou de plaisir ; je ne crois pas qu’ils aient des articles, car je n’ai point trouvé de mots qui revinssent souvent et quie servissent à lier leurs discours. Ils connaissent les rapports numériques ; ils ont des noms de nombres, sans cependant distinguer le pluriel du singulier, ni par aucune différence dans la terminaison, ni par des articles.
Is misremembering would not be unlikely given that naval commanders of the period would enter significant events into the ship’s log typically several hours aer the actual event, at some point when it was more convenient to spend some time writing in private. Additionally, in Russian the the diphthong 〈ай〉 /aj/ is uncommon in word-initial position, but is unremarkable word-finally. . La Pérouse, Commodore Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse was one of the earliest Europeans to visit the Tlingit, commanding the French naval frigate L’Astrolabe and accompanied by the La Boussole under Viscomte de Langle.
