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Table 3.3: Scribal Errors in the Copying <strong>of</strong> Old Omagua Texts<br />
Phoneme Lord’s Prayer Fragment Full Pr<strong>of</strong>ession Diaries<br />
p<br />
t, h<br />
t<br />
s, i<br />
k gu 114<br />
k w<br />
gu<br />
m n n n<br />
n m, z m, r n<br />
s e 115 v, r fs 116 ch<br />
S<br />
tS<br />
R v x, n c, n<br />
w go bu ga, n<br />
y n l<br />
i ie, d e, u u<br />
e a, c 117 a a, c a, c a<br />
1 c u ua<br />
u a v, a, re a, n n<br />
a e, s e, u, i, o o e, u<br />
ai<br />
ei<br />
ui<br />
a1 eag eag<br />
alternations on the part <strong>of</strong> Jesuits in representing /e/ as both and . Support for this<br />
conclusion comes from the fact that the same root in the same text is occasionally represented with<br />
and occasionally with . Where correspondences between the Proto-Omagua-Kokama and<br />
Old Omagua front vowels /i/ and /e/ and the modern Omagua front vowels /i/ and /I/ are not<br />
straightforward, we discuss them on a case-by-case basis in footnotes to the texts themselves. 118<br />
Lastly, note that yet other instantiations <strong>of</strong> , as discussed above, correspond to modern /1/ (and<br />
crucially, to *1), making our knowledge <strong>of</strong> the phonemic representations <strong>of</strong> these forms in modern<br />
Omagua all the more essential to their proper representation in Old Omagua.<br />
118 See footnote 135 for more details.<br />
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