Creek possesses all sounds of the general Maskoki alphabet; but here
and in Hitchiti the gutturals g, k, χ are often pronounced with the
tongue resting upon the fore or alveolar part of the palate. The
alternating processes observed here also occur in most other Indian
and illiterate languages: tch, dsh alternate with ts, ds, h with k,
χ; g with the other gutturals, b with p, d with t, ā with e, o
with u. The accent shifts for rhetoric and syntactic causes, and many
unaccented syllables are pronounced long. In the pronunciation of the
natives there is a sort of singing modulation, which likes to lengthen
the last syllables of a sentence.[131] Syllables not final generally
terminate in a vowel.
[Footnote 131: Thus the Creek verbal ending -is, though short by
itself, generally becomes -īs, when concluding a sentence;
also the Hitchiti ending -wāts, -tawāts.]