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The pronunciation of tlie diplitliovfjs may be easily inferred from their 

 component vowels; it is as follows: 



as in life, mine, sly, die, dye. 



as in mouse, loud, arouse. 



a combination of e and i resembling the vowel sounds in 



the word greyish, united into a diphthong. 

 as in pure, few, union. 

 as in loin, groin, alloy. 

 as in watch, wash; French, hi, roi. 

 as iu squid, win, switch. 

 All the diphthongs being of an adulterine character, they can generally 

 be separated into two vowels, and then are hyphenized, as in i-u, o-i, d-i, a-u. 



GRAPHIC SIGNS. 



- arrested sound : sk6-hs, spring time ; tchu-ka, to swim up stream. 



' apostrophe marking elision of a vowel, of e or any other sound: 



heshudmp'li for hesliudmpeli, to recover one^s health. 

 hiatus, separating two vowels as belonging to two different 

 syllables: p41a-ash, ^owr; lemd-ish, thunder; or two consonants: 

 tsials-ha'mi, at salmon-time. 

 separates the parts of compound terms: skiikskiii'm, spirit-fish or 



letiferous fish. 

 acute; the only accent used tVtr marking- emphasized syllables. 

 ~ vowel pronounced long: mu'ni, large, great. 



vowel pronounced short, except 6, to which a distinct sound ia 

 given: yiimaltka, to return from berry-harvest. 



