that he had been kidnapped by the Tuscarora nine months earlier from a town called Towasa, and sold to colonists in Virginia. Lamhatty has been identified as a Timucua speaker, but John Hann calls the evidence of his origin as a Tawasa "tenuous". Phonology Timucua was written by Franciscan missionaries in the 17th century based on Spanish orthography. The reconstruction of the sounds is thus based on interpreting Spanish orthography. The charts below give the reconstituted phonemic units in IPA (in brackets) and their general orthography (in bold). Consonants Timucua had 14 consonants: is represented with a c when followed by an , , or ; otherwise, it is represented by a q There is no true voiced stop; only occurs as an allophone of after existed in Timucua only in Spanish loanwords like "gato" and perhaps as the voiced form of [k] after [n] in words like chequetangala "fourteen" Sounds in question, like and , indicate possible alternative phonetic values arising from the original Spanish orthography; /b/ is spelled with <b, u, v> in Spanish sources and <ou> in French sources. The only consonant clusters were intersyllabic and , resulting from vowel contractions. Geminate consonant clusters did not occur Vowels Timucua had 5 vowels, which could be long or short: Vowel clusters were limited to intersyllabic , , , Timucua had no true diphthongs. Syllable structure Syllables in Timucua were of the form CV, V, and occasionally VC (which never occurred in word-final position). Stress Words of one, two, or three syllables have primary stress on the first syllable. In words of more than three syllables, the first syllable receives a primary stress while every syllable after receives a secondary stress, unless there was an enclitic present, which normally took the primary stress. Examples: yobo [yóbò] 'stone' nipita [nípìtà] 'mouth' atimucu [átìmûkù] 'frost' holatamaquí [hôlàtâmàkʷí] 'and the chief' Phonological processes There are two phonological processes in Timucua: automatic alteration and reduplication. Alteration There are two types of alteration, both of which only involve vowels: assimilation and substitution. Assimilations occur across morpheme boundaries when the first morpheme ends in a vowel and the second morpheme begins with a vowel. Examples: tera 'good' + acola 'very' → teracola 'very good'; coloma 'here' + uqua 'not' → colomaqua 'not here.' Substitutions also occur across morpheme boundaries. Regressive substitutions involve only the "low" vowels (, , and ) in the first-morpheme position, and