| There is no one "right" way to write the Chumash languages. |
| Different people have written Chumash in different ways over
the years, including Spanish missionaries, early explorers and anthropologists,
John P. Harrington, and more contemporary anthropologists and linguists. |
| These lessons present Samala Chumash in a form of
phonetic spelling. |
| Some of the advantages of phonetic spelling are: |
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English spelling is very inconsistent: |
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With phonetic spelling, the same letter stands
for the same sound — across the board. |
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Once you're familiar with these phonetic symbols,
you can read anything written in them, such as other books and articles
on the Chumash languages. |
