Sioux language font

[R. Rankin]

Yes!  Go to John Koontz's web site and you can download
several different Siouan fonts that will allow you to
use current phonological symbols, the traditional Riggs
Sioux spelling system or several other variants.  His
URL is:  http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz

Bob Rankin


----- Original Message -----
From: Bruguier, Leonard <bruguier at usd.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:11 PM
Subject: Sioux language font


> hey hey folks: is there a font out there that i can
use to transcribe some
> of my tapes in Dakota? any help appreciated. with
respect, horse
>
> Leonard R. Bruguier
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> www.usd.edu/iais/
> "Life is good, I aint had a bad day since '68." St.
Lefty
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rankin, Robert L [mailto:rankin at ku.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 9:02 AM
> To: 'siouan at lists.colorado.edu '
> Subject: RE: Omaha athe, etc.
>
>
> >So we have (pre-)historically two different words
that come
> out as /the/ in OP.  One is the positional, 'standing
inanimate',
> (or 'plural, bundled').  The other is a cognate of
Hidatsa /rahe/,
> which means 'to say that'.  The former modifies
nouns.  The
> latter works with verbs to convey the sense that
evidently the
> verb took place.  By analogy, other positionals have
also been
> introduced into the post-verbal slot with the same
EVIDENTIAL
> meaning.  So any time we find a positional after a
verb in OP,
> the implication is that the verb 'evidently'
happened.  Is this
> a valid re-statement of what you're saying?
>
> Yep, exactly!
>
> >For /athe'/, it looks like we have two hypotheses:
>      1)  It is the 1st-person inflected form of
/the/.
>      2)  It is a separate, uninflected particle.
>
> I think I'll start by trying Catherine's excellent
suggestion of
>
>      aNzhaN' aNthe'
>
> My only caveat here has to do with the fact that the
verb 'sleep' here has a
> final nasal vowel.  Since the beginning of the
putative 'we must have slept'
> contains the same vowel, there is some possibility of
confusion on the part
> of speakers.  Maybe some verb that ends in an oral V
would improve chances.
>
> Bob
>