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and k. Also respecting this sound a definite statement as to 
the presence of voice must be reserved to further more leisurely 
observation. The general impression was that of a strongly 
articulated g, my unwillingness to set this sound down as a k 
being perhaps due to the fact that it is produced considerably 
farther back than k in English. Before a, especially before 
stressed a, it acquires the same strength as, for instance, c in 
English cat, even with some aspiration following it: kaling-kd 
almost kaling-khd. Disregarding fluctuations observed, I rep- 
resent it for the present uniformly by k: taku person, iningkdu 
there was. 
The consonantal diphthong ch, evolved, as in Inibaloi, from 
d, and which occurs in all three dialects here recorded, was pro- 
nounced much softer than in the first-named language. A study 
on the spot might lead to the adoption of a symbol corresponding 
to d 3 of the International Phonetic Association. 
SALEGSEG 
Salegseg (locally SaKogsog) is reached from Balbalasang in, 
four hours on horseback down the Saltan River. Official sta- 
tistics give the population as about 940. Affiliated settle- 
ments speaking practically the same dialect are: 
Pfu^o (Bolo). 
Chuso(k). 
Koewoean. 
Possa. 
Pottau. 
Upojf. 
Ka-wong. 
Ota. 
Legleg. 
Kilayun. 
Lopwdng. 
Alengngag. 
Nawoi. 
Ta-wang. 
PfuayantoA 
My informant, a native of Salegseg proper, spontaneously 
stated that their dialect was about the most difficult to under- 
stand for the Kalinga of other districts, and this on account of 
its peculiar phonetics. Asked for the name of their speech, he 
unhesitatingly gave it as kenalingkd (<kainalingka) . The chief 
phonetic peculiarities are: 
1. A mixed vowel of the o class replacing other Phil, a according to 
rules yet to be established. Being quite open, it is best repre- 
sented by the ce of the International Phonetic Association. Isin. 
gaiva middle, Bal. kawa, Sal. lccewoe. Occasionally this sound be- 
comes rather indistinct (the a of the Int. Phon. Ass.): Tag. buaya 
alligator, Bal. phudya, Sal. pfuceya; Ilk. dua two, Bal. chua, Sal. chud. 
2. The peculiar Bal. bilabial ph, representative of other Phil, b is 
found in Sal. in about the same average form only before i: Tag. 
gabi night, Bal. laphi, Sal. laphi. Before an original a it becomes 
what might be called a hard b (I employ for it the symbol j) 
and thus forms — seemingly according to the quantity of the syllable — 
either the syllable doe (Inib. mabayag what lasts much time, Sal. 
madceysg; Span, bayoneta bayonet, Sal. doeyoneta; Ilk. bdsa idea 
of reading, Sal. dcessa; Ilk. ibagd what is told, Bal. iphyakd, 
Sal. idosge), or the group dua (Phil, bato stone, Sal. duatd; 
