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a more particular explanation of them the reader is referred to those 

 publications. The vowels are a, a, ii, a, e, e, e, T, i, i, o, o, fi, u, pro- 

 nounced in the continental manner. There is, however, no real dis- 

 tinction between corresponding e and i vowels on the one hand and 

 o and u vowels on the other. Apparently', two continental sounds 

 answer to one Haida sound that lies midway between them. Very 

 slight u- or a- sounds accompanying consonants occur in the Masset 

 dialect and in Tlingit words, and are indicated b}^ " and '\ A (English 

 aw) and o (like o in stop) sometimes occur in songs. The consonants 

 are the following: 



and 1, b, y, w. 



A laryngeal catch (') takes the place of ^. in the Masset dialect; x is 

 also pi'onounced softer, more like h. The fortes are accompanied by 

 a slight pause or explosion in utterance, and the laterals are related to 

 Ts, coming nearest in intonation, however, to the combinations dl and 

 tl or kl; X is like German ch in ach; x. is formed farther forward; 

 n is identical with ng in thing. The remaining sounds are similar to 

 the English sounds which their signs represent. Prolongation of a 

 sound is indicated by +. Hyphens are used to separate some com- 

 pound words, but more often to mark that two successive vowel 

 sounds do not form a diphthong. A pause or the omission of a vowel 

 is indicated by an apostrophe. 



