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Terminal n, particularly after /, becomes voiceless, and hence very 

 weak. 



kenu'nen staff ends in voiceless ft, but in the plural kenu'nenit 

 the ri is voiced 



This may account for the slight nasal character of unaccented 

 terminal /. 



§ 5. Medial Consonantic Clusters 



The following consonants never appear in clusters: 



This proves again that all of these must be considered as double 

 consonants (see § 4). 



Besides this, the following do not occur as the first member of a 

 medial cluster: 



k,^ ^,* r, h. 

 The medial cluster tr occurs in some derivations of the loan-word 

 tre'n'non (Russian cpej^ee). 

 gatre'n'nonta'len they went to Sredne Kolymsk 

 The following do not occur as second member of a cluster: 



s', n', « 



The consonantic medial clusters that have been found are con- 

 tained in the following table, in which dashes indicate inadmissible 

 clusters. 



§5 



• Except th. 



* Except nd\ 



» Except kk, and in one case kr, which is probably an affricative q. 

 * Except qq. 



