THE LANGUAGE OF SANTA ANA PUEBLO 



By Irvine Davis 



PHONOLOGY 



SYLLABLE STRUCTURE 



Santa Ana Keresan utterances normally may be segmented ex- 

 haustively into recurrent structural units, or syllables, of the shape 

 CV. The syllable margin, C, is composed of a simple consonant or a 

 phonetically complex consonantal segment. The nucleus, V, consists 

 of a vowel or vocalic sequence, with or without terminal glottal 

 closure. A few loanwords and a word of possible onomatopoetic 

 origin contain syllables which are closed by a nasal: 



ndrdn orange (Spanish naranja) 

 'uydumbumci drum 



Syllables closed by consonants other than a glottal stop, however, 

 are considered as an aberrant pattern. 



Excluding sounds introduced by loanwords, there are 48 contras- 

 tive syllable margins: ^ 



w y h ? 



w y 



I The symbols herein used conform to the orthography developed by Wick R. Miller (1959 a, 1959 b, and 

 1960). 



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