KEY TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF MAYA WORDS 



The vowels and consonants have their continental sounds 

 with the folio wing'except ions : — 



a like u in hut 



ai like i in island 



k (lieltran's c) ordinary palatal k 



q (Heltran's k) velar k 



(Beltran^s o) ts explosive or fortis 



(Belt ran 's tz) ts non-explosive 



s (Beltran's x) like sh in hush 



ts (Beltran's ch) like ch in church 



ts (Beltran's ch) ch explosive 



p (Beltran^s pp) p explosive 



% (Beltran's th) t explosive' 



