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OlbrecIts] the swimmer MANUSCRIPT 13
Con sonants—Continued
Prepalatal
c, unvoiced, as in Engl, shut, fish.
j, voiced, as in Fr. jambe, genou.
Palatal
Laterals
X, unvoiced, as in Gm. ich, nicht.
1, voiced, as in Engl, lid, rill.
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^1, the same voiced sound, but preceded by the dental element described
s. V. Nasals, ^n.
1, unvoiced 1.
Afifricatives
Dental
dz, voiced, as in Engl, hands up.
ts, unvoiced, as in Engl, bits, ants.
Prepalatal
dj, voiced, as in Engl. George.
tc, unvoiced, as in Engl. China.
Lateral
tl, unvoiced 1, preceded by unvoiced dental stop.
Diacritical Marks
-'-, the Greek "spiritus asper" indicates breath, aspiration.
-'-, the Greek "spiritus lenis" indicates glottalization.
Sj,, a hook, turned to the right, under a vowel indicates nasalization.
-!-, a combination of the "spiritus asper" with the nasalization hook indicates a
strong nasal aspiration.
-"-, a small superior n indicates slight nasalization.
-•, a dot after a vowel, above the line, indicates long quantity of the vowel.
-:, a colon after a vowel indicates very long quantity.
-"-, a breve over a vowel indicates abnormally short duration.
-., a dot after a vowel or consonant on the line indicates a very slight pause.
-', the "acute accent," following a phonem, indicates primary stress.
-*, the "grave accent," following a phonem, indicates secondary stress.
', the "acute accent" printed over a vowel indicates rising pitch.
\ the "grave accent" printed over a vowel indicates falling pitch.
The two latter can be combined to ", i. e., "falling-rising," or to '\ i. e., "risingfaUing
" pitch.
Abbreviations Used in the Texts (Interlinear Translation)
App.= apparently. l. = liquid.
Dir. = direction. L. = limitative.
(2) = dual. L. ( = E.) = limitative, used as emphatic.
E. = emphatic. Loc. = locative.
Excl. = exclamation; On. = onomatop.
H., Hab.-^ habitually. sol. = solid.
kn.=kneadable. T. L.== temporal-locative.
Words or parts of words between brackets [ ] in the texts were
written by the native compilator of the manuscript by mistake.
Words or parts of words between parentheses ( ) had been omitted
by him but have been interpolated by J. Mooney, by W., my inter-