- Italics will be used in what follows for traditional local spelling.
- In loan words from European languages, Lifu inserts a vowel, usually /e/, between two successive consonants, e.g. sileva < Eng. silver; sometimes the vowel is /a/ as in tapara Eng. temperance.
- Lifu /w/ and /w'/ are clearly opposed to /u/ and /hu/ as shown by wa /wa/ 'fruit'—ua /ua/ ‘spirit’, qa /w'a/ ‘out of’ hua /hua/ ‘grave’.
- The rough breathing mark after a consonantal symbol is to be interpreted as a mark of unvoicing, and not as that of a subsequent aspiration.
- The reason for ranging /l'/ and /l/ with the nasal consonants, will be given below §4–6.
- About filling of gaps in general, cf. A. Martinet, Rôle de la corrélation dans la phonologie diachronique, TCLP 8, 273ff.; and Function, Structure, and Sound Change, Word 8.1–32.
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