Consonants: p, t, k, s, h, l, m, n, y, and w
As you have probably already noticed, many of the consonants in Hul’q’umi’num’ have the same sound and the same spelling as in English.
p
| ‘to get hit’ | |
| ‘sail’ | |
| ‘paper’ |
t
| ‘money’ | |
| ‘town’ | |
| ‘neck’ |
k
| ‘cake’ | |
| ‘gold’ | |
| ‘stocking’ |
All of these consonants are very common in Hul’q’umi’num’, except for k, which only appears in words borrowed from English or from French via Chinook Jargon.
s
| ‘basket’ | |
| ‘cloth’ | |
| ‘to sneeze’ |
h
| ‘to fall’ | |
| ‘to sneeze’ |
l
| ‘to look at it’ | |
| ‘money’ |
m
| ‘father’ | |
| ‘to yell’ |
n
| ‘to be chubby’ | |
| ‘mother’ |
y
| ‘tooth’ | |
| ‘to laugh’ |
w
| ‘wagon’ | |
| ‘niece, nephew’ | |
| ‘town’ |