Virtues-wolves-coyotes

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Wed Aug 21 19:05:33 UTC 2002


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Linda A Cumberland wrote:
> > For what it's worth, Omaha-Ponca 'little, small, young' is z^iNga',
> > cognate with c^hiNc^a.  (This is aspirated in the southerly dialects of
> > Dakotan, right?)
>
> Just to be clear, I'll confirm that the second c in c^iNca is unaspirated
> in Assiniboine (a "northerly" dialect).

I see the problem.  Linda uses ^ to mark aspiration, whereas I use it for
hacek.  Linda's c^ is my c^h.  her c is my c^.

JEK



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