<DIV>This is really good news about the Osage revitalization program! I hope things keep moving in the right direction, for Osage as well as the many other languages starting revitalization programs!</DIV>
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<DIV>Dave</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><B><I>Jimm GoodTracks <goodtracks@gbronline.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">It is said that...<BR>"Mogre Lookout has really been pushing to have Wahzhazhe spoken under the <BR>dance arbor. He is also teaching the advanced language class there in <BR>Pawhuska. Kathryn Red Corn's nephew Tallee Red Corn is rapidly becoming one <BR>of the most fluent speakers in the tribe. Sounds like the language program <BR>is going well and there is talk of adding classes in Hominy and Gray Horse <BR>Districts."<BR><BR>Beyond this much, I will have to wait on further information.<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Justin McBride" <JMCBRIDE@KAWNATION.COM><BR>To: <SIOUAN@LISTS.COLORADO.EDU><BR>Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:19 AM<BR>Subject: Re: OSAGE OTHOGRAPHY<BR><BR><BR>>> HVvBV Hu-a (fish symb) THV-HV<BR>>> ZHO-KU-La(fish) Av-KV-TSE Av-KU-Tha (fish).<BR>>> Hanba hua thaha (lit: Day coming when)<BR>>> Zhukinla angatsi ankatha/o !
(lit:
Together we go we go forth)<BR>><BR>> Wow. That's news to me, too! It must be a very new development. When I <BR>> visited their classes a few months ago, they were just using a Roman <BR>> alphabet with no special characters other than a hyphen and an apostrophe <BR>> (well, and maybe a superscript n, but I can't remember). I seem to recall <BR>> that they were using all caps. I don't think they distinguished between x <BR>> and <GAMMA>. Nor did they distinguish between preaspirate hp, ht, hk, and <BR>> hc and their plain unaspirated counterparts p, t, k, and c in the <BR>> orthography, thus blurring the contrast between 1st person and 3rd person <BR>> forms of certain verbs. For example, TON-PE stood for both htoNpe 'I see' <BR>> and toNpe 's/he sees.' From what I saw, that confused some of the <BR>> students. But otherwise, most of the class appeared to understand the <BR>> writing system and could easily read it. I wonder what prom!
pted the
<BR>> change...<BR>><BR>> -jm<BR>><BR>><BR>> <BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com