Cayuga Sounds and Spelling

You can also download the (outdated) Cayuga spelling manual (PDF with embedded sound files).

• Acknowledgements
• Writing systems (background information)
• Cayuga letters
  • Overview of Cayuga letters
  • Vowels (A, E, I, O, U, Ę, Ǫ)
  • Vowel Combinations (AI and AE, EI, ĘI, AǪ and ĘǪ, IǪ and IAǪ, IĘ and IAĘ, EA and IA)
  • Long and short vowels
  • Consonants (D, T, G, K, S, H, SH, J, TS, N, R, W, HW, Y, HY, ˀ)
• Syllables
• Accent Placement and vowel length
  
  • Introduction to Accent Placement
  • Counting syllables
  • Final versus non-final accent
  • Non-final accent placement (and lengthening)
  • Vowel length
  • Exceptions to accent placement and length
  • Non-neutral statements
• Pronunciation changes related to accent
  • Vowel length and lengthening
  • Vowel shortening
    • Sounds versus spelling 
    • Syllables ending with H
      • Whispered IH, EH, and ĘH, plus another vowel
      • Whispered O̲H and Ǫ̲H, plus another vowel
      • Whispered AH, plus another vowel
    • Syllables ending with ˀ
      • Disappearing glottal stop