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The following symbols will be employed for consonants: gutturals, k, k‘, ng; dentals, t, t‘, n; labials, p, p‘, m; aspirates, f, h; sibilants, s, sh, j, ts, t‘s, ch, c‘h; liquids, l, r; semivowels, w, y. The aspirated consonants k‘, t‘, p‘, are pronounced by inserting the sound h, after the letters k, t, p. To obtain, for example, the aspirated from of t or p, enunciate the word Tahiti without the