Eye 1
Link to the Sound File: Click on the link below to get to a page where there is a sound file of this interview segment.
https://soundcloud.com/miluk-org/eye-1-lhm-interview/s-o6thu
Listen to the Back X [ x̣ ] in the Milluk word aXats ‘cry’, in the interview segment “Crying”, which we write phonetically as [ ʔáx̣ats ], and as [ ˈʔɑχɑts ], in the IPA. In our easy way to type the Back X, we make a point of writing it as a dotted x, with the dot after the x, but only where the sound is at the beginning of a word. We use a capital X elsewhere.
Instant Phonetic Englishization: The back X sound in Milluk is very light, almost an h, so saying it like hwahl_hwahl is close to what it sounds like.