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and k. Also respecting this sound a definite statement as to 
the presence of voice must be reserved to further more leisurely 
observation. The general impression was that of a strongly 
articulated g, my unwillingness to set this sound down as a k 
being perhaps due to the fact that it is produced considerably 
farther back than k& in English. Before a, especially before 
stressed a, it acquires the same strength as, for instance, ¢ in 
English cat, even with some aspiration following it: kaling-kd 
almost kaling-khd. Disregarding fluctuations observed, I rep- 
resent it for the present uniformly by k: taki person, iningkau 
there was. 
The consonantal diphthong ch, evolved, as in Inibaloi, from 
d, and which occurs in all three dialects here recorded, was pro- 
nounced much softer than in the first-named language. A study 
on the spot might lead to the adoption of a symbol corresponding 
to d3 of the International Phonetic Association. 
SALEGSEG 
Salegseg: (locally Sadogsog) is reached from Balbalasang in, 
four hours on horseback down the Saltan River. Official sta- 
tistics give the population as about 940. Affiliated settle- 
ments speaking practically the same dialect are: 
Pfuso (Bolo). Chus6(k). Keeweean. Possa. Péttau. 
Upof, Ka-wong. Ota. Legleg. Kilayun. 
Lopwong. Alengngag. Nawoi. Ta-wang. PfuayantoA. 
My informant, a native of Salegseg proper, spontaneously 
stated that their dialect was about the most difficult to under- 
stand for the Kalinga of other districts, and this on account of 
its peculiar phonetics. Asked for the name of their speech, he 
_ unhesitatingly gave it as kenalingka ( <kainalingka). The chief 
phonetic peculiarities are: 
1. A mixed vowel of the é class replacing other Phil. a according to 
rules yet to be established. Being quite open, it is best repre- 
sented by the @ of the International Phonetic Association. Isin. 
gawa middle, Bal. kawa, Sal. kewe. Occasionally this sound be- 
comes rather indistinct (the @ of the Int. Phon. Ass.): Tag. buaya 
alligator, Bal. phudya, Sal. pfud@yo; Ik. dua two, Bal. chua, Sal. chua. 
2. The peculiar Bal. bilabial ph, representative of other Phil. 6 is 
found in Sal. in about the same average form only before i: Tag. 
gabi night, Bal. laphi, Sal. laphi. Before an original a it becomes 
what might be called a hard 6 (I employ for it the symbol g) 
and thus forms—seemingly according to the quantity of the syllable— 
either the syllable dw (Inib. mabayag what lasts much time, Sal. 
madcyeg; Span. bayoneta bayonet, Sal. dwyonéta; Ilk. bdsa idea 
of reading, Sal. dessa; Ilk. ibagé what is told, Bal. iphyakd, 
Sal. idegé), or the group dia (Phil. baté stone, Sal. diiaté; 
