JOD orthographic oddity

[Catherine Rudin]

Dorsey does indeed know where an umlaut belongs :-)  He uses umlaut over u pretty often, and it's clear it indicates a front rounded vowel.  He uses (clearly written) tilde both above and below u, and I'm not sure what it indicates.  I've not seen what looks like an umlaut below a letter except in this example.  If it IS "poorly scribed tilde" (or one that got partly erased or something) what sound would that mean?
Catherine

>>> "Cumberland,  Linda A" <lcumberl at indiana.edu> 5/3/2011 12:32 PM >>>
Mark and Catherine,

The Dorsey slip for the Kaw word that corresponds to the example you 
sent is "du", with no marking under the vowel. In that entry he also 
gives cross-references to dule and du-ska, also with no diacritic above 
or below the u. (the contemporary form is fully rounded "do"). However, 
the Os. example at the bottom of the slip is "tu" with an x under the 
't' and a perfectly clear tilde under the 'u'. Since your mystery 
diacritic occurs in a Kaw reference, and our slip for that word has no 
marking under the Kaw word but a tilde under the OS word, I'd guess 
that you are dealing with a tilde which, as Brian notes, probably 
indicates the fronting of u in Osage and Kanza. I'd be surprised if 
Dorsey didn't know where to place an umlaut, so my money's on a "poorly 
scribed tilde".

Linda

Quoting Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu>:

> http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/dictionary_images/nu/opd.03.005.09c.jpg 
>
>
> Aloha All,
>
> Catherine located another Dorsey orthographic oddity. The image link is
> above.
>
> Can anyone interpret the diacritic under the /u/ in the cognates?
>
> It appears to have two under dots.
>
> There are two samples of it.
>
> Catherine reported finding a /u/ with what appears to be an under tilde
> elsewhere.
>
> We are unsure if the two under dots are just a poorly scribed tilde.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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