Quappa

Justin McBride jmcbride at kawnation.com
Thu Sep 15 15:08:36 UTC 2005


> Has anyone seen an -f- in Quappa? I wonder if it's a misreading of -h-.

I'd reckon that English speakers generally unfamiliar with velar fricatives 
have written them all sorts of ways, but I've seen 'f' before.  There's an 
old Kaw census listing Hard Chief (Gahige Wac^c^exi) as Ki-he-ga-wah-chuffe. 



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