Papago Phonemes

@article{Saxton1963PapagoP, title={Papago Phonemes}, author={Dean Saxton}, journal={International Journal of American Linguistics}, year={1963}, volume={29}, pages={29 - 35}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:224808393} }
0. This paper is a description of the phonemes of Papago and their distribution.' Papago is the language of the Desert People (T6hono ?0?odhami), a tribe of about 10,000 persons living in scattered villages in southern Arizona and adjacent Sonora, Mexico. The majority of Papagos live on four reservations in Arizona: Sells, San Xavier, Gila Bend, and Ak Chin. The last is under Pima Indian jurisdiction. There are five major Papago dialects: T6togiwuani, Kokol6lodi, Gigimai, Huuhu?ula, and S… 
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