The world is considering renaming United States on their maps. As the indigenous people discovered and explored the land thousands of years before the first Europeans, it’s fitting that they should do it. Many nations made up the area. Is there any name that would be representitive of all?
kʷədub swatixʷtəd
Means stolen land in Lushootseed. But, any native language, or all native languages would be acceptable.
Any pointer to an audio-file for that phrase?
The Internet says this is the phonetic pronunciation
kwuh-doob swah-tee-hw-tuhd
Which is absolutely worthless, especially if it is based on English pronunciation, which is basically random. That’s why I was asking for an audio file.
https://gprivate.com/6m1g0
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We can abbreviate it to K-Dub! Or maybe kʷə for those either have an expanded keyboard or are willing to copy-paste or find the superscript tool in whatever app they’re using or whatever. Kind of like how people shorten the country’s full name to America or the USA or the U.S.
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