SISSANO WORDS. Zh 
The profile drawn upon the several classes of consonants (Fig. 3) 
exhibits two peaks with an intermediate depression. ‘The depression is 
due to the fact that the sibilant and the spirant are produced in the two 
languages by but one organ apiece, for the occurrence in two instances 
in Sissano of the palatal sibilant sh and in one instance of the palatal 
spirant kh may be neglected. The final peak, that representing the 
mutes, is effectively the same for the two languages. The former 
peak! shows strong diversity, the Samoan peaks on the semivowel, 
the Sissano on the nasal. We are particularly fortunate in this 
comparison as to the sibilants, for the Samoan is almost the only lan- 
guage in the Polynesian family in which the s has not undergone 
mutation to the h proximate to the linguals. 
The aspiration appears in this Sissano material in these words: 
anseh ehl oh seehl 
The key to the explanation is found in ehl of the Neuhauss record, 
for which Friederici gives the form el. From this we infer that 
Neuhauss has employed the character h not as aspiration but rather 
to indicate the quality of the preceding vowel. In the case of oh of the 
Neuhauss record Friederici presents the form ol; this is far removed 
from the ordinary type of mutation; therefore we may regard the h of 
oh as a scrivener’s error. ‘Thus we find ourselves justified in removing 
the aspiration from the alphabetic table of the Sissano, and for this 
reason I have included it within the marks of parenthesis. 
I observe but three instances in which double consonants are unmis- 
takably established, blei, brun, dirp; possibly we may add thereto 
ewerk. It will be observed with a view to future study that each 
of the four instances involves the lingual nasal; twice it follows a mute, 
twice it precedes a mute. We note the fact, but in the paucity of 
material we may not venture upon an explanation thereof. There 
are many instances of the concurrence of consonants, but for the pres- 
ent these are susceptible of the explanation of syllable difference. 
Duplication, that strong character of the languages of Polynesia, 
is found in this Sissano vocabulary only in the cases of dondon, lele, 
ranran. ‘The type is that of conduplication according to my system 
of differentiating this speech mechanism.* 

*29 American Journal of Philology, 37. 
