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k' -

stop plus "h" would be ambiguoua with

shou).d that

digraph be uaed with the Spaniah value. Severa diff icultiee

would occur in the repreaentation of the gl.ottalized etapa

eince with both aapirated and gl.ottalized atops the in–

conaiatency of representing the front velar stop would

be preserved.

System (b), on the other hand, eliminatea all of these

difficultiee of expanaion to aapirated and glottalized

stopa, since once the inconeiatency ie eliminated from the

basic repreeentationa, i t would not be reproduced with the

expansion. Syatem (b) wi th /k/ and

fqf

has alresdy achieved

considerable acceptance in southem Peru even to a ppearing

in sporadic instances in newspapera and the like. Were

linguiatic investigation to be conducted by the governments

uaing linguiats trained in the Stateo, they would almoat

certainly decide on the "k" and "q"

they hSd government

backing to make innovations. Were other publicetions to

follow eystem (a), and then later aystem (b) were adoptad

by the governments, it would be a very BSrious drawback to

the usefulneas of these publicetions inasmuch as it would

affect so many soundo at once. There were clear indicationa,

a a we have already said, in the introduction to this

rr·.

ort,

that such linguistic possibilit1ea were by no means remete.

lnasmuch as syetem (b) was phonemicelly preferable, there–

fore, and would be en insurance against such a future

linguiatic upset, it seemed wise to the Conference as a

whole, to adopt ayatem (b) and write /k/ and

qf.

We note with interest Sr. Palacios' etatement that in Puno the /k/,

fq/ aystem is in uee with approval. We observe that it will require

e more marked changa from current practica in Bolivia, but we believe

that if the changa is msde and adhered to with firmness for a period

ita advantagss will be felt to be considerable.

bilabi'll glottalized

dental

alveo-J2!!latal

velar

back-velar

ato¡¡

(Sometimee callad

ejsctives

explosives

11 .)

Upon these Dr. Pike writea:

There is ample evidence of a aignificant

difference between these aounda and the previoua unaapirated series

diocusaed. For writing these sounds the advantags of uaing the

apoatrophe was that i t leaves single-letter aymbola for the phonemss

rather than d1grapho. This leavea the words ahorter -- which ia oon–

aiderably advantagsous in the l i ght of the extreme length of soma

Quechua words. In addit1on, it is available in Spanish type f onts and

has long traditional usage in phonetic alphabets. In conaidering

unity w1th Aymara,

would be very awkward for the latter to use

doullle lettero to represen t the glotta11 zed stops because they have