Brinton.] 360 (Jan, 4, 
phonetic elements (though I am aware it has obtained in books printed in 
Iroquois), and I agree with those who advocate employing rather the 
Buropean alphabets with diacritical marks. In the present work, there- 
fore, I have concluded to adopt for the tresillo the somewhat similar Greek 
sigma 3; and for the cuatrillo the full-faced q this having, indeed, the 
authority of Varea in his Oalepino and also of the native writers, Xahila 
and Queh, who use a modification of this letter for the cuatrillo of Parra, 
The cuatrillo con coma is then readily represented by a full-faced q, with 
a comma, and thus the necessary phonetic distinctions are observed) 
without going beyond the resources of an ordinary printing office, and 
without presenting to the reader figures or signs which he cannot possibly 
connect with any sounds whatever.* 
* On the general subject of the phonology of the dialects under consideration, 
the student will find the best information in Dr, ©. H. Berendt’s essay, An 
Analytical Alphabet for the Mexican and Central American Language, (New York, 
1869, published by ‘the American Ethnological Soctety); and in Dr. Otto Stoll’s. 
work, Zur Hthnographie der Republik Gautemala, pp. 40-44, The description 
given in the text of the peculiar sounds is taken from that in Torresano’s. 
Grammar, 
