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dence of a short vowel, as in genS'lla to start, kma'kka to look about, udi'tta 

 to whip. More about this under: Phonetic Figures. 



The colhsion of sounds of a different character, produced by two 

 different parts of the vocal tube, is a fruitful source of phonetic alterations, 

 whenever tlie natives find it difficult or impossible to pronounce tliem in 

 succession. No language, we may safely say, is exempt from phonetic 

 changes produced by immediate collisions of this kind. Thus the Klamath 

 suffixes -tka, -tki will frequently appear as -tga, -tgi, but never as -dga, -dgi 

 or -dka, -dki. 



In the following table I have disposed various clusters of sounds after 

 their initial sounds, without taking notice of the fact whether the components 

 belonged to one or more syllables; y and w being counted as vowels. Many 

 of these cluster.s form parts of distributive reduplicated forms. 



CLUSTERS COMPOSED OF VOWEL SOUNDS. 



u clusters : wawakogsh, wawawaiha, tchuaish, luelualoj^a, wu-utchdwa, 



shu^-usham, wiiita, w^waleks, vuivui. 

 o clusters : kuloya'na, 6ya, o-uakgi. 



a clusters : nxai-i%itko, skdwanksh, kAwantko, ka-uk4-uli. 

 a clusters : a-ii;il%a. 



e clusters : wewilina, shewana, Idyash. 

 i clusters : yukiaka, shitiaika, tsliuyag6tkish. 



CLUSTERS COMPOSED OF CONSONANTS. 



k clusters: shlepdktgi {or shlepdktki), shaktiikt^a, kma'kka, kpakpa, 

 tsa'ktsika, ktchidshu, tchligiiktchktchka, ktchAktchak, 

 ntikshktcha, b6xtka {for b6kstka), pniuksla, utchiklji^a, 

 shektlal6na, hishtchAktna. 



X clusters: mpetlaxsh. 



g clusters : i)ip6langshta, lu'gshla. 



t clusters : tl6zo, t;{6po, tk4p,tgaki4mna, Tm6kila, tdtktish, l^shuat/sh. 



tell and dsh clusters: litchlitchli, vulakAtchktcha, tchvii'ntka, kititchna, 

 tslats[l]kagantko 144, 11, tsxe-uts;^e-ush ; ndsh^ndsh^a, 

 shudshna, vuggidshlin. 



p clusters: k'k'kapksh, g^pktak, tap.szoya, lapkshapta, nshlptchpa. 



