The characters č, ǰ, u̲, ṳ, o̤, o̰, ḷ, ṇ, ṭ, γ, f, v, b, p and r"" (thrilled r) in the transliteration table do not appear in the dictionary nor in the corpus. The characters ḍ, š and ž appear each two times and the character u̫ one time in the dictionary.
TRANSLITERATION.
A. Vowels.
| a = a in father. | o͉ = o in not. |
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a͉ = a intermediate between a in father and cat. | u = u in ride. |
| u͉ = u in bull. | |
| e = a in take. | u̫ = ṳ in German güte. |
| ę in there. | u̲ = - in German glück. |
| e͉ = e in let. | o̰ = o̤ in German könig. |
| i = ee in see. | a̯i = in line. |
| i͉ = i in it. | a̯u = in how. |
| o = o in stone. | ei |
| ǫ = o in ought. | o̯i= in boy. |
B. Consonants.
| b = b in bed. | r = r in red. |
| č = ch in church. | r"" = trilled r. |
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x = approximately equiva- lent to Scottish ch in loch. |
rh = r slightly trilled and aspirated. |
| s = s in sea. | |
| d = d in dark. | š = sh in she. |
| ḍ = cerebral d. | t = t in ten. |
| f = f in field. | ṭ = cerebral t. |
| g = hard g in gold. | v = v in vivid. |
| h = h in have. | w = w in win. |
| ǰ = j in jewel. | y = y in yellow. |
| k = k in key. | z = z in razor. |
| l = l in long. | ž = z in azure. |
| ḷ = cerebral l. | ɣ = soft g in N. German tag. |
| m = m in man. |
f, v, = bilabial f and v, Span- ish pronunciation of b. |
| n = n in not. | |
| ṇ = cerebral n. |
b,p = b and p sounded nearly like w, with closed glottis. |
| ṅ = ng in ringer. | |
| p = p in pay. |
Dynamic accent (stress) x
High tone ́
Low tone `
Sign of nasalization ~ (over the letter).