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