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general scheme of Dr. Jones in the matter of things phonetic 

 save where in my judgment they are inadequate. 



The following table will show the phonetic elements of Fox 

 as I conceive them: — 



Vowels and diphthong 

 Full-sounding : 



a A e i u 

 a d a e Id* 



(e never occurs save terminally as a rhetorical lengthening of 

 e or i, and then has an i- vanish; when a terminal rhetorical 

 lengthening similarly has a w- vanish; d is found only after w). 



ai (only before y), 



an (only in the exclamation 'au'). 



Voiceless and aspirated (terminally only) : 



a" o' e' i' o' 



Consonants 



stops Spirants Affricatives Nasals Semi-vowels 



Glottal « 



Palatal k'k gg^ . . . . yV 



Alveolar . . c c tc tc'^tc 



Dental t t d s s . . n^ 



Labial P P b ... m^ w^ 



The sibilants 5 and c occur only initially; otherwise they 

 are replaced by 's and V, respectively. The spirant '^ after back 

 vowels is nearly intermediate in effect between a surd velar 

 spirant and our h; after front vowels the effect is more palatal. 

 It always occurs before initial vowels and ai. The stops g d h 

 are articulated with greater strength than in English; they never 

 occur initially; before terminally voiceless vowels g becomes g'^; 

 d and h (both of which are rare, especially the former) do not 

 occur in final syllables. Voiceless " '" -^' '•" are phonetic modifi- 

 cations oi n m y w, respectively, before terminal voiceless vowels. 

 The affricative '^tc occurs initially and medially save in final 

 syllables; "^tc occurs mostly in final syllables, though also in 

 medial ones. It may be noted that 'k H 'p He are given as a 

 series, because (outside of verbal compounds after 'a-, m-, kl-, 

 wl- where they are transformations oi k t p tc) they correspond 

 in Cree to a^sibilant followed by k t p tc. It may be added that 



* a e i u are open; t are close. 



