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Atter I had been in the conntry a conple of months, I 

 formed another opinion of the nature of the aspirated / [/J 

 than the one expressed in the reproduction of tiiis sound as 

 dl {gdl, vdl] or tl which is given in Kleinschmidt's orthography. 

 With respect to this matter I find the following remark in my 

 diary (Sept. 2, 1900): "it seems to me now that it is not 

 necessary to indicate any constant t or d before unvoiced /, 

 but the sound is no doubt very often introduced by \^\ , a 

 sound which, however, I still find difficult to understand 

 distinctly. A hp-arliculation [iv\ may also introduce it." After 

 that time I began to indicate it in my notes by ''/ or ^l^ 

 whereas I now write [''^.^j or merely [/J. 



My investigations of tliis ^-element gradually gave me a 

 clearer insight into its nature, until I finally settled upon the 

 following result: when i or ii (high vowels) is followed by 

 an aspirated fricative [a q (p\ the whole surface of the 

 tongue is raised tolerably high during the articulation of both 

 the vowel and the consonant. On account of the strong 

 aspiration which is necessary for the consonant, this raising 

 of the tongue often sounds like a g- or /-like glide or tran- 

 sition-sound between them both. It is in reality a kind of very 

 loose pre velar izat ion [f] or pos tpalatalizati on of the 

 vowel [y^] (cf. § 11, end of §23), which may or may not occur 

 in the same words, and which, in some cases, must un- 

 doubtedly have been original with the words, but is in other 

 cases rather a secondary result of the nature of the adjacent 

 sounds. 



Ex.: [lA-o] or [Ш-0, гХ-о\^ [i(fit\ or [i>((p'it^ ifit]'- 



\kiX'iria\ or [kiXk'tria\''^ \nu(fi-\ or \nu'^(fium(iiitq\* [s/s'a^J 

 or [si>(s'd.q\^ 



In [no''^s'u-A<i\^ where -S'uaq means ,, large"', the raising of 

 ^ house " grass ^ its boundary * (place-name at Eqe) '' the lieach. 



