The I in Tutelo-Saponi

[Scott Collins]

Thank you Dr. Rankin.

Scott P. Collins



--- On Fri, 5/20/11, Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu> wrote:

From: Rankin, Robert L <rankin at ku.edu>
Subject: RE: The I in Tutelo-Saponi
To: "siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU" <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Friday, May 20, 2011, 12:16 PM

If the transcription was done by a linguist or by one of the talented amateurs like Horatio Hale then all vowels, whether upper case or lower case, should have standard values:

Aa like the a in father.
Ee like the e in bet
Ii like the i in machine
Oo like the o in boat
Uu like the u in rune

If the transcription was done by someone else there's no way to know what was intended unless we can compare their writing to some known source.

Bob


________________________________________
From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU [owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU] on behalf of Scott Collins [saponi360 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 1:21 AM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: The I in Tutelo-Saponi

I was wondering if the capital I in the Tutelo-Saponi langugae is pronounced (eye) or (eye-yah)?




Scott P. Collins


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/siouan/attachments/20110520/a7ffe9e8/attachment.html>