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Note that the grapeme <s> in the Allen-Mills system is pronounced /ʃ/ or /s̺/ when followed by [i] (e.g. ''sinkokah'' /ʃin'kokah/ "orca"), or in coda position (''Nanhoska'' /nan'hoʃka/ "the True 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 Konishmak 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 most of the country, although there are some remote regions of the country that have not been affected by either sound shift.  As a result in foreign transcriptions <sh> is often used in words where the /s/ >>  /ʃ/ has already occurred, e.g. ''akôsh'' vs. the original ''akôs'' transcription

Because the American Media orthography system is the most widely used system, it will be used throughout the rest of this article, unless otherwise noted.