Lesson 2  

1 – Glottal stop     7 – Sound Rule 1
2 – Glottalized consonants     8 – Sound Rule 2:  Sibilant harmony
3 – Pronouncing and writing glottal stop     9 – Simple sentences
4 – Sibilants and sibilant harmony   10 – Demonstratives:  "this" and "that"
5 – Verbs and person markers   11 – Cumulative vocabulary
6 – Nouns and person markers    

Reviewing Glottal Stop:  

In the first lesson you learned about glottal stop — written here as — and saw examples of it in various places in the word:
at the beginning: house knife
  ap "house"
  inu "true"
  w "knife" ap w
in the middle:    
  woo "to lie, tell a lie"    
  siip "they say"    
  kiap "our house"    
at the end: ear to sleep
  o "water"
  tu "ear"
  we "to sleep" tu we
 
In the section on phrases and numbers in the first lesson you learned a few words that had glottal stop right after some consonant — or right before, in the case of  ikom "two."
  suku "what"   friend
  kweki "that, that one" — initial in the phrase antk
  heki "that, that one" — not initial  
  antk "friend"
two
 ten
  ikom "two"
  iyaw "ten"
ikom
 iyaw

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