224 GRAMMAR OF THE KLAMATH LANGUAGE. 



would c.iuise confusion; slikoks yhod is never pronounced shkoks, which 

 means tick; giwash is kept distinct from giwash, usha from viisha, shi- 

 kantcla from shikantila. Cf Homonymy. 



Vowels alternating: 

 u with wu, vn, hu : udiimtchna, vudiimtcima; u-iin, vim, wun ; ututchkia, 



vutatchkia, hutatchkia. 

 u with o: liik, 16k; Idpuk, lapok; hvxtchna, ho'dshna; pul^uantcli, poloku- 



antcli; liiloks, loloks; tumenu, t;'im'no, but not liuye%a with 



n with a: jjntputli, patpatli; ku'lkuli, kiilkali. 



u with a: uiukash, ma'kash; cf. iiat. nut. 



n witli ii : ndi'ivua, udii'yua (by dissimilation); shuyu;^alsh, sii'yii^alsh. 



ua with o, u: genuala, geno'la, genu'la. 



a with 6: maklaks, niakloks (Modoc); kalkali, kolkoli ami kCi'lkuli; skan- 



shna, sk6ntchna; hishpMmna, hishpl6mna ; sufhx -uiipka, 



-u6pka. 

 a with a : takt4kli, taktJi'kli, and in many other adjectives of color (^by dis- 

 similation); yaka for yii'ka, is considered vulgar slang; cf 



shlaank for shl^ank 6(i, 1 3. 

 e with a: nep, niip; pdn, pe'na, pa'n; tchel%a, tsa'l^a; heme;je, liam(ixe; 



.shhlyaks, shl4-ika, shla'yaksh, shla'-ika. 

 e with i and ii : cl;(a, il%a, a'lza; kdtcha, kidsha, ga'dsa; shetchakta, shi- 



tchakta; A-ushme, A-ushmi. Cf also: mukasham, mukisham 



17.^); 14. 

 e with i: ne'l, nl'l; e-e, I-I. 

 i with iy, y before vowels: shlanfa, shlaniya; i-amnash, yamnash. 



The circumstance that many of these alternations occur in accented syl- 

 lables proves that they constitute a fundamental law of Indian articulation. 

 In diphthongs very few, if any, changes of this kind are noticed, neither do 

 lono* vowels alternate often. The most frequent alternating processes are 

 observed between a and o, e and ;i, n and wu, vu, u, and o. In many 

 words vowels can be attenuated into (•. 



