Writing System
The orthography used on the Tonkawa Tribe's website is similar to Americanist phonetic notation.
| Alphabet | Pronunciation | Alphabet | Pronunciation |
| c | /ts/ | a | /a/ |
| h | /h/ | a· | /aː/ |
| k | /k/ | e | /e/ |
| kʷ | /kʷ/ | e· | /eː/ |
| l | /l/ | i | /i/ |
| m | /m/ | i· | /iː/ |
| n | /n/ | o | /o/ |
| p | /p/ | o· | /oː/ |
| s | /s/ | u | /u/ |
| t | /t/ | u· | /uː/ |
| w | /w/ | ||
| x | /x/ | ||
| xʷ | /xʷ/ | ||
| y | /j/ | ||
| ' or ? | /ʔ/ |
Long vowels are indicated with a following middle dot < · >. The affricate /ts/ is written as < c >. The glottal stop /ʔ/ is written as either an apostrophe < ' > or with a superscript question mark < ? >. The palatal glide /j/ is written as < y >.
The phonemic orthography used in Hoijer's Tonkawa Texts is a later version of Americanist transcription. It uses a colon for long vowels < : > and the traditional glottal stop symbol < ʔ >. some of the examples of it would be like salt it is called mummun and peper is mummunchicew
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