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ts' !&im¥ (but also ^s'/ayam fc') he hid it; compare te'/a-ima'n I 



shall hide it 

 oinfc' he gave it; compare oiaa'n I shall give it 



If the inferential -¥- does not immediately follow, an inorganic a 

 seems to be regularly inserted between the second and third elements 

 of the diphthong: 



gelts' leLja'mxamViia^ since he concealed it from us 

 Examples of other than inferential forms with unsimplified double 

 diphthong are: 



<s'/aim^aZ:'"'hidden 



oin give it! (yet ts'luya'm hide it! with inorganic a) 



Consonants (§§ 12-24) 



§ 12, System of Consonants 



The Takelma consonant system is represented in the following 

 table : 



The spirants have been divided into two groups, those on the left- 

 hand side of the column (labeled v.) being voiced, while those on the 

 right-hand side (labeled unv.) are unvoiced. The rarely occurring 

 palatal lateral I (see § 2, footnote) is also voiceless. Every one of the 

 consonants tabulated may occur initially, except the voiceless labial 

 spirant -'"", which occurs only with Ic at the end of a syllable. Prop- 

 erly speaking, -V"^ should be considered the syllabic final of the 

 labialized guttural series (Vw, gw, Iclw) ; a consideration of the 

 consonant-clusters allowed in Takelma shows that these labialized 

 consonants must be looked upon as phonetic units. The catch (0 

 as organic consonant is found only medially and finally; the I only 



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