Consonants
Rule: Three - s
| When the letter S is before the vowel it will sound like the English letter Z . |
| satà:wen | són:ni | sá:thi | sá'tsnenht |
| you swim | you make | you move away | you get down |
| sén:ta' | sò:ko | són'nek | sé:ta |
| you sleep | you take it out of the water | you move it | you put it in |
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(The following was taken from "Kanien'keha
Dictionary: Fall 1998 Mohawk 101 Printing; Akwesasne Mohawk Board of Education
and The State of New York at Potsdam" without permission)
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