The most obvious innovation in the representation of the language is Collado's transcription with an _i_ of the palatal consonant which all his contemporaries record with a _y_. Thus in the text we find _iomi_ and _coie_ (terms for native words and Chinese borrowings) where Rodriguez writes _yomi_ and _coye_. This change was affected while the text was being translated from the Spanish manuscript which uses _y_; and Collado himself must have felt the innovation to be of dubious value since he retained _y_ for the spellings in the _Dictionarium_.[7] Collado's handling of the nasal sounds is too inconsistent to be a reliable source for phonological data. Given his rather awkward specification that nasalization is predictable before what we must assume he means to be the voiced stops and affricates,[8] his grammar presents an uncomfortably irregular pattern in the transcription of the phenomena. Thus, on page 39 we find _vo mõdori aró ca?_ as well as {7} _modori aró ca?_. Again, what he presents as the ending _zũba_ in his description of the formation of the negative conditional (p. 34) appears in _tovazunba_ in its only occurrence in a sample sentence (p. 62). To further confound the issue such forms as _tovazunba_ and _qinpen_ occur in contrast to _sambiacu_, _varambe_, and _varãbe_. In Chart 1 the traditional pattern of the _gojūonzu_ (chart of 50 sounds) is followed as a convenient framework in which to display the transcriptional system employed by Collado. Chart 1 COLLADO'S TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM _The Simple Series_ /#/ /k/ /g/ /s/ /z/ /t/ /d/ /n/ /φ/ /b/ /p/ /m/ /y/ /r/ /w/ /a/ a ca ga sa za ta da na fa ba pa ma ia ra va /i/ i qi gui xi ji chi gi ni fi bi pi mi - ri - /u/ u cu gu su zu tçu zzu nu fu bu pu mu iu ru - /e/ [ie] qe gue xe je te de ne fe be pe me ie re - /o/ [vo] co go so zo to do no fo bo po mo io ro vo _The Long Series_ /au/ [vó] có gó só zó tó dó nó fó bó (pó) mó ió ró vó /uu/ ú cú (gú)(sú) - (tçú) - - fú (bú)(pú) - iú rú - /ou/ [vô] cô (gô) sô zô tô dô nô (fô) (bô) pô mô iô rô vô _The Palatal and Labial Series_ /ky/ /sy/ /ty/ /ny/ /by/ /my/ /kw/ /gy/ /zy/ /dy/ /φy/ /py/ /ry/ /gw/