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"Butterfly" in Lushootseed. This word is evidently written phonetically. The question-mark-shaped symbols are glottal stops, the upside-down e is a schwa (pronounced "uh"), the c with hachek over it is probably pronounced "ch", and I don't know what the check-mark thing is. Justin Mansfield jokes that this word is pronounced "You... you... BITCH!"

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