Linguistic Matls IN the language of study

Hannah Soreng hsoreng at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
Sat Feb 25 18:53:32 UTC 2006


Oops sorry.  That was failed ASCII.  A friend promised me that it would work.
The one in the title is N with a tilde ~ as in Spanish.  The others are 
accented
o's.

Quoting Mia Kalish <MiaKalish at LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US>:

> Hi, Hannah,
>
> I was wondering about the ? marks. In position, they look like they should
> be accented o's; in older Athapascan texts, ? refers to a glottal stop.
>
> Were the words actually written with the ? marks?
>
> Thanks,
> Mia
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> I have a Quichua/Spanish dictionary which is primarily writeni n Quichua.
> The
> cretids, the grammatical descriptions, the language examples, the
> explanations
> of precise meaning, etc are in Quichua.  There are just a few bare words of
> Spanish.  Quechua has a much larger base of speakers, but it's still pretty
> unusual.
>
> The book is called :
> Caimi ?ucanchic -- Shimiyuc-panca
> 1982.
> Ministerio de Educaci?n y Cultura, Pontifica Universidad Cat?lica del
> Ecuador
> ILL-CIEI
>
> There are more than a dozen people listed as, roughly, "knowers",
> "writers", and
> "drawers".
>
> Hope that's useful.
>
> Hannah Soreng
>
>
> Quoting Mia Kalish <MiaKalish at LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of any cases where the results of linguistic study of
>> Indigenous language have been codified IN the language of study? That
> would
>> be a grammar actually written in, for example, Navajo or Jicarilla, rather
>> than in English, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, etc?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help. I am currently writing in my dissertation that there
>> are no known cases. . . . I've never seen one, but maybe in Maori?
> Hawaiian?
>> Quecha?
>>
>>
>>
>
>> Mia



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