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(2) The oame should hold true in one or two succoedin!!: ayllobloo
1f
the low variant
1s
persistently used. Where the back velar
influence is not extended to the succeeding syllables. use
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1" and "u".
(3) In words of nativo origin which do not contain the back vdars,
onl.y the
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1
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and ''u" ahould be ul!d.
a
- vowel
Dr. Pike WT1tes:
"There
wao
no question about the WTiting of the
phoneme /a/.
lt should be notad thet in some of the dialacts there
1s
wide variation.
l havo heard free variante from {a} to
{~
to
4ee
~.
The variety
4e~
tends to occur especially in word-flnal
syllable s unstreseed. A further condi tioned variant of /a/ as well
as /i/ and /u/ is unvoiced: all of the vowels very frequently become
voiceleao at the and of phraseo.
Inaemuch ae thaee voiceless vowell
were not poralleled by separata phone1111s in ths trade language,
there was no Oonfarence deaire to writo theae variante eeparatsly;
they were subeumed under the baoic vowele, ea conditioned variants
without any objection.
It is interestlng to note in this connectlon
thet the principle of conditioned variants finds full acceptance in
situations such as this one where there
1a
no conflicting phonemic
etructure in the trade languags: i t is whon the trada language has
soma of the phonemea, but unconditioned, which the vernacular like–
wioe hao, as conditioned variante of each other, that popular
alphabet fornation on the basis of Spanish nay tend to aeperats tho
writing of ths variante."
s1111a
- (ret)ler than
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sua")
Of this type of problem Dr. Pike writes:
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Thare were
a
numbor of
words where phonetically two syllabics oc currad together, the flrst
one stressed as in /sua/ 'thief•. They appeer to be contracted formo
or fast forms of worde wh1ch drop out e
fw/
a fter fu/ but before a
vowel, or drop /Y/ after /i/ but befora a von l; in other words,
elow / euwa/ becomes fast / sua/.
It should be noted that if these
are callad
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diphthongs
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they are very different from a vowel plus
a
nonsyllabic post-syllabic "y" or
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w
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which m1ght aleo be callad
diphthongs, because the first type
1a
composed of two syllabics
(both vonls) and the other type of one syllaiic and one non-eyllabic
(a vowel plus a consonant). Any state..,nt about diphthongs in Quechua
should therofore be defined clearly as to whether the term
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diphthongs" is a syllabic plus a non-eyllabic or a group of two
eyllabics together;
1t
1s
better to avoid t he term entirely.
Inasmuch ae there were no clusters of vo""ls appearing together
apert from this kind of words, the Oonference ae a whole preferred
9 to 7 to epell the words as they would
be
in the longar, elower
form by adding the /w/ betwsen the vowelo, eo that thees words appear
to be similar to words like /wssi/ which have aleo OVCV.
l psreonal–
ly think that thi; writing of long forme when
1t
is not the more
frequent form heard
1s
unnecessary and lees deeirable then wrlting
the forme as they are actually spoken,
In
the QUechua,
though,
contractions in general are very rare, so it does not affect
llllterially the epelling of words. An extension of this typs of