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tremendoualy more difficult time in becoming established, For this reason the
conference wae he si tant to insist on iiiliiSdiate uniformity. Grsnting the po–
tentially poseible uniformity of orthography within the limita of actual
correspondence of eounds between the dialecto, the conference achievcd a high
degree of alphabet unity; this would allow an interahange of
li
tera~ure
between
dialects which would be no more difficult for the speakere to handle than the
actual speaking difficul ties themselves.
The conference felt that by imposing
no artificial barriere which were not already present in the language itaelf,
the 11terary un1formity would have to await a tima when the cultural trends in
the achool system and economic life would themaelvea favor the implemantation
of unified literatura. As a further step in avoiding literatura differences
which were Wider than tbe actual lingul.stic differencee between the dialects,
the conference recognized the advantages of having baeic translations for
large areae with satisfactory modifications for neighboring dialects; while
giving full eerviceabili ty to individual dialects this would not prevent later
uni ty, but would rather give e pattern for the moet economical reproduction of
dialect literature,until the cultural eituetion was ripe for amalgemetion of
eome dialects or the suppreseion of tboee which proved weak in literatura."
Section A The Alphabet of Cuzco Quechua
Inaamuch as the Cuzco dialect of
~echua
appears to contain the moot
highly differentiated series of aounds,
1t
is appropriate to base the general
determinations upon it end consider the other dialects in reference to it.
Upon the following group of phonemes there was full agreement by the
conference and they may be listad here \7ithout coiiliiSnt:
p
-
bilabial unaspirated stop
t
dental unaspirated stop
m
-
bilabial nasal
-
voiced dental lateral
a
-
dental voiceless fricativa
eh -
alveo-paletal unaspirated stop
Thie followe the Spanish tradition. Technically better and easier for
a learner would be a single symbol, but none seems to be available
that could be introduced without general governmental pressure. The
advantage outweighs the diaadventeges.
n
dental nasal; alveolar nasal at beginning of syllables; velar nasal
~
end of eyllableo (a conditioned variant).
ñ
-
alveo-palatal naeal, (correeponding cloaely to the similar Spanish
sound),
Dr. Pike '• report notes:
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0ne very technical question wae rsised,
namely as to the adviaability of writing
/ñ/
as
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ny
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to paraUel /sy/,
fpyf,
etc, if they occurred in the middle of words. By Premisa
three,
1t
waa proven that there was a difference in phonemic analysis
between "ny"
(/i'f./)
and "sy" (/ay/) in that
/ñ/
occurs at the beginning