TABLE OF SOUNDS 



Tlie following symbols have been used in the texts and the recording 

 of native names. 

 Vowels : 



a, e, i, o, u have their continental values. As in English, long vowels 

 tend to be closed, short vowels to be open, but the quahty is variable 

 and not significant, o is always closed, and is distinguished from o 

 wliich is open. 



a — English hat. 

 ai — English i. 

 w — English w. 

 y— English y. 

 Consonants: 



p — French pere. 



p — Glottalized p; the glottalization is very slight and the sound 



is frequently confused with the medial, 

 t — French t6. 



I — Glottalized; glottalization very slight, as in the labial* 

 k — Palatalized k, imaspirated. 

 E — Palatalized k, glottalized. 

 k — Spanish boca. 

 E— Glottalized k. 

 m — English m. 

 n — English n. 



r) — English ng (before k only). 

 1— English 1. 

 I — Voiceless 1. 

 s — English s. 

 c — English sh. 



ts — German Zeit, but without aspiration. 



ti — Glottalized; with slight force of articulation almost like dz. 

 tc — English church. 



fc — Glottalized with slight force of articvdation. 

 h — More affricative than English h. 

 ' — Glottal stop. 

 Length is indicated by a point following the letter; both vowels and 

 consonants may be long. All accented syllables are lengthened, some 

 of the length being accorded to the terminating consonant. Where 

 not indicated the primary accent is on the first syllable; the secondary 

 accent, in words of four or more syllables, on the penult. Compound 

 words retain their- original accents. 



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