[Spam:0011 SpamScore] Re: Omaha-Ponca words

[Kathleen Shea]

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From: "Koontz John E" <John.Koontz at colorado.edu>
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Subject: [Spam:0011 SpamScore] Re: Omaha-Ponca words

> Proper spelling is an interesting question.  Quite a number of internally
> consistent, more or less satisfactory orthographies have been used with
> Omaha-Ponca.  The best candidates for "proper spelling" in the context of
> your efforts are probably the current popular orthographies for Omaha and
> Ponca, which are similar, but not quite the same, though not in ways that
> reflect the similar "similar, but not quite the same" situation with
> respect to Omaha and Ponca speech.  The differences are simply slight
> arbitrary differences in the spelling scheme.  I'll try to provide forms
> in the Omaha version.  Neither of these schemes is trictly speaking
> "official," but the are both in active use within the two tribes, and
> backed by committee efforts.

The governing Ponca Business Committee adopted and approved the alphabetic
writing system developed by the Ponca Language Arts Council, to which you
refer above, as the "primary learning system of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma"
(Resolution No. 35-042000, April 20, 2000).