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no comment: // and 6 are produced without rounding of the lips. 

 o approaches i and u in quality and the latter were occasionally 

 written as variants of 6. u 



The diphthongs a/. <>i. o7, ui and ia are the most frequent: 

 others often found are an. ao, id and ua. 



Vocalic Quality 



It is probable that but one quality of vowel is found in Tepecano, 

 an intermediate between fully close and fully open, as heard, for 

 instance in English, a was heard exclusively as open; i was occa- 

 sionally distinguished as open and close but was never heard so 

 open as in English sin nor so close as in English seen, o is quite 

 open in quality, approaching aw of English hue. it is very open 

 but is often heard as approaching close o and has sometimes been 

 confused with the latter. V1 But one set of vocalic symbols have there- 

 fore been used in writing Tepecano, the ordinary roman characters. 



Yowels slurred over or produced with less than usual strength. 

 e. (/., when it is not certain whether a consonantal combination 

 obtains or whether a vowel intervenes, are indicated by raised 

 characters. This does not imply that they are voiceless. 



i u 



(") o 



a 



Accent 



Accent is of doubtful function in Tepecano. '■"' Stress accent was 

 generally recorded and is here retained but as the same word was 

 frequently accented differently on different occasions, much doubt 

 of its value must ensue. Some words were heard with equal stress 

 on all syllables, some with equal stress on alternate syllables, and 

 some with main and secondary stress accent. The stress has most 

 frequently been marked on the antepenult. Such accent is indicated 

 by an acute accent mark following the vowel. 



here also as he confuses it with a and ?. All other languages of the Piman group appear 

 to possess normal e which doubtless relates to o of ihe Tepecano sub-group. 



1 * Kroeber uses u in Papago in place of Tepecano o (Dolores, op. cit.). 



1 * Rinaldini tends to confuse o and u iu Tepehuane likewise {op. cit.). 



13 Accent is weak and unimportant in Papago also (Dolores, op. c?7... 



