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1908] Barrett .—The Geography and Dialects of the Miwok Indians . 359
ALPHABET.
The characters used to represent the various sounds found in
the Miwok dialects are as follows :
Vowels.
a
as in father.
ai
as in aisle.
e
as in obey.
e
as in net.
1 as in machine.
i
o
o
n
u
n
u
u
u
as in pin.
as in note.
English aw.
as in rule.
as in put.
as in but.
is made with the lips considerably rounded.
There is no exactly equivalent sound in
English.
Similar to u but with lips more rounded . This
sound approaches the French u, but is of less
definite quality.
An obscure sound.
The apostrophe (') following a vowel or consonant indicates
a pronounced aspiration.
Consonants.
p,b,w,m,n,y,h
as in English.
k is a symbol which has been used to represent
two different sounds : the post-palatal and the
medio-palatal voiceless stops, the value given
g
it in any case being governed by the tongue
position of the vowel with which it is associated.
is the sonant of k and its positions are varied by
the vowel with which it is associated in the
same manner as in the case of k .