Vote for Osage!

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 31 21:04:30 UTC 2003


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Carolyn Quintero wrote:
> Doesn't match too well with my idea of maNiN being maNdhiN 'walk, go forth',
> that is to say if anyone were so careful to write the o'kas^e'iNke rather
> formally, then it's odd that the person would not be so careful of the
> latter.  Unless it was LF who erroneously thought he was representing very
> standard Osage with maNiN'?

I'm assuming they're writing moni for [maNniN], with nasalization of the
vowels not indicated, but /dh/ heard as [n] between nasal vowels.  That
would make the usage more consistant.

JEK



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