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Gospels have tdridiz for tauradiz ; tanoriz for tanuriz. At the end of 

 a -word o is very common, and in that position was written a by 

 Macgillivray. MacGregor notes that/^in Boigu, final o is more clearly 

 expressed than in Saibai. 



In a few cases e changes with i, geto, gitalenga. 



2. Diphthongs. — ai as in aisle ; au as ow in coiv ; ei as ay in may. 

 Macgillivray wrote ei where the translation has ai. 



3. Consonants. — h, g; t, d; p, h; io;j) s, %; r, I; m, n, ng. These 

 are sounded as in English, ng being the 97g in sifig. 



There is some confusion between the sounds of t and d, p and b, 

 s and s. 



In the Saibai Gospel t and d are often found with r, as fr and dr. 

 These are not written in the vocabularies, and must therefore be 

 regarded as due to the Lifu translator's pronunciation of the Saibai, as 

 in Lifu, t and d are commonly strengthened with r. 



Examples : drtirai, padra, drudritpizo, for durai,pada, dudupizo and 

 tradiz, tridan, tronar, Tcatro, for tadiz, tidan, tonar, Icato. 



Macgillivray wrote th in a few words, thi, thung. Th is also found 

 in introduced words. F, in fad, lohof is a change from p. The distinc- 

 tion between iv (consonantal) and ii (vocal) has been better observed in 

 Saibai than in Miriam. J is not found in the Gospels, and, in intro- 

 duced words, is represented by i. MacGregor has / in a few words 

 where others have z, ja^ndaika, japudamino, jaji, for zapulaig, zapu- 

 damoin, zazi. Macgillivray also has/ for z ; haje, ajir. S and z often 

 interchange, 2;?<r//s and pudiz ; musur, muzura ; susu, suzu. In some 

 words ]\Iacgillivray wrote ch for s, chena, china, for sena, sina ; and also 

 used sh in shuma for sumai. He noted also that the Gudang tribe of Cape 

 York substituted ch for s in pronouncing Kowrarega {i.e. Muralug) 

 words. "Words in ch and sh will be found in our vocabulary under y. 



R is rarely found as an initial (cf. Miriam), but is common as a 

 medial and final. It sometimes interchanges with I, tar dan, larpudan 

 for taldan, balptidan. Eor the insertion of r in Muralug words, see 

 the preceding note on Dialect. 



A few interchanges are found between tig and n ; ngursala and 

 nursak. MacGregor has gn as well as ng, but this is probably an error 

 in transcription, 



4. Compound Consonants. — The only real compound consonants 

 found (with the exception of dr and tr already noted) are gio and kw. 



