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We shall next develop the phonetic variety of these languages in a 

 series of tables such as we have employed for other Melanesian speech 

 in Chapter VII. 



AWALAMA. 



a a, i, o 

 e e oo 



i i, a, e, o u u, o 



I I, r, n 

 ng n, g, m n n, g, h mm 



h t, - 

 s h, — 



v g 

 f v, w 

 k h, — t t, d, h, — p p, b 



a-a 46, 74, 199, 217, 239, 258, k-h 297 



265, 276, 290, 300, 317, 324, k— 46, 258, 306 



339. 35°. 360 n-w 46, 74, 259, 290, 317, 330 



a-i 328 n-g 254 



a-o 199, 258, 291 n-^ 328 



e-e 190, 276, 290, 363 h-t 339 



\-i 46, 259, 290, 291, 298, 300, h— 363 



350 s-h 239 



i-a 254 s — 298 



ie 254, 330 t-t 74, 199, 258, 306, 324, 350 



\-o 254 t-d 276 



0-0 247, 259, 336, 363 t-h 247 



u-m 74. 239, 247, 258, 265, 298, t— 217 



306, 317, 321, 330, 360 m-w 217, 258, 265, 317, 321, 324, 



u-o 328 328 



\-l 339 \-g 291 



\-r 297 f-v 363 



\-n 265, 336, 350 f-w 254, 259, 290, 360 



ng-n 336 VP 190 



ng-g 350 p-b 247 



ng-w 199 



Identical 3 J 7, 3 2 4 



Vowel identity 46, 217, 265 



Consonant mutation : 



Vowel identity 239, 259, 276, 290, 306, 350, 363 



Frontal abrasion 46, 306, 321 



Frontal accretion 190, 239, 298, 360 



Terminal accretion 190, 247, 254, 300, 321, 330, 336, 339 



Metathesis 3 6 ° 



