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Note that the grapeme <s> is pronounced /ʃ/ or / | Note that the grapeme <s> is pronounced /ʃ/ or /s̺/ when followed by [i] (e.g. ''sinkokah'' "orca"), or in coda position (''Nanhoska'' "the Nanhoshka people"). A few decades after the Allen-Mills transcription system was developed, a sound shift in the northwestern Hoyampe dialect, whereby /s/ shifted to the voiceless apico-alveolar fricative /s̺/ when followed by /i/ or in coda position. A similar sound shift occurred at around the same time in the northeastern Konismak dialect (possibly the result of the Hoyampe sound shift), but it was the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative /ʃ/ that appeared. It was this sound shift that spread out through the rest of the country. The original Allen-Mills digraph <sh> was retained for all other cases. | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== |