Taanshi all,<br><br>Actually, what I was hoping for was an <n> with a </> right through it.<br><br>Over twenty years ago (to be sure), an Elder from the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota published a few resources using a character like this. From what I can tell, the backslash was added after the fact. The special 'n' was used as a character to mark nasalization of the vowel(s immediately before it. <br>
<br>Now, I realize that a tilde over a vowel is what is normally used. However, since Michif has quite a few French-origin elements (+/-50%?), many of our Elders were (still are?) multilingual and familiar with French-spellings, and many learners in Canada (at least) rely on French dictionaries to guess at the meaning of some French-origin words, a character like this could help quite a few people recognize Michif cognates of French words. <br>
<br>One orthography we are presently using a modified double-vowel system which includes an n with a tilde over it to mark nasalization. It works quite well but we had really wanted an <n> with a </> through it to mark the nasal vowels in both French-origin and Cree-origin elements. (Yes, we have nasal vowels in Cree-origin elements of (almost ?)all dialects of Michif! Our language is, in so many ways, blend doing things that are not normally done in its languages of origin!) <br>
<br>Anyhow, that is the story behind my desire to have this new character....<br><br>Kihchi-maarsii pur kakiyaw tii ziidii! <br><br>Eekoshi pitamaa. <br><br>Heather<br><br>PS: How do I get a tilde over an <n> when writing emails using a PC. I can do this on my MAC but haven't figured out how to do this on a PC....<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Andrew Cunningham <<a href="mailto:lang.support@gmail.com">lang.support@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And on windows are available in core fonts.<br>
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2008/5/17 Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:rzs@wildblue.net">rzs@wildblue.net</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Heather,<br>
> are these the ones?<br>
><br>
> ñ Ñ<br>
> (n with a rising pitch sign above)<br>
><br>
> i suppose your computer needs to have the right encoding<br>
> but i pulled these acute n's off the Character Palette<br>
> on my iMac10...and dropped them on this email (did they scramble?)<br>
> they are ready-mades ,ready to go<br>
><br>
> Character Palette<br>
> under European Scripts<br>
> under Latin:<br>
> "Latin small letter n with acute"<br>
> "Latin capital letter n with acute"<br>
><br>
><br>
> -Richard<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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> On 5/16/08 4:30 PM, "Heather Souter" <<a href="mailto:hsouter@GMAIL.COM">hsouter@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Taanshi,<br>
><br>
> I am wondering how to go about creating a new character and how to go about<br>
> getting a unicode codepoint for it. What I have in mind is is an <n> with<br>
> a</> over it.... Any advice or suggestions?<br>
><br>
> Kihchi-maarsii!<br>
><br>
> Eekoshi.<br>
> Heather Souter<br>
> Michif Language Activist and<br>
> Community Linguist<br>
><br>
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</div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">--<br>
Andrew Cunningham<br>
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator<br>
State Library of Victoria<br>
Australia<br>
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<a href="mailto:andrewc@vicnet.net.au">andrewc@vicnet.net.au</a><br>
<a href="mailto:lang.support@gmail.com">lang.support@gmail.com</a><br>
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