<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I forwarded this to my group of 735 people.<div>A good number of them are eastern European, so </div><div>we will have an answer very quickly.</div><div>I know they will want to see an image of the</div><div>mocs. Seeing the image will also answer what group or area</div><div>quiet quickly. We deals with thousands of pairs every year.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Billy Maxwell<br>VISIT <a href="http://mcppp.org">mcppp.org</a><br><a href="mailto:bmaxwell@mt.net">bmaxwell@mt.net</a><br>187 Woodland Est. Road<br>Great Falls, MT 59404<br><br></span></div><div><div>On Oct 27, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Catherine Rudin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma">
<div>OK, here's my best shot. </div>
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<div>It's not Bulgarian, or at least if it is it's written by someone semi-literate.</div>
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<div>It IS, however, a Slavic language, written in Cyrillic alphabet (mostly -- a couple of Roman letters mixed in, specifically one "R", one "S", and one "i", so definitely eastern Europe/Russian empire. Are the shoes by chance from Alaska?? The Ukrainian version of cyrillic uses an "i". Maybe this is Ukrainian. Or Russian, written by someone who was bilingual, not terrifically literate and tended to use some Roman letters interchangeably with cyrillic; I know Turks who do this when writing in Bulgarian and I've done it myself in English when going back and forth between writing systems. </div>
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<div>In any case, it appears to be two names. Perhaps the owners of the shoes?? </div>
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<div>Here's a transliteration: </div>
<div>First line: OA Evaoriia Uvunova</div>
<div>Second line: SA Georgiva Vasileva</div>
<div>And the smaller words not in all caps: edno sjirze sae (or fae???)</div>
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<div>I don't know what "OA" and "SA" are. "Evaoriia Uvunova" and "Georgiva Vasilieva" look like women's names: feminine patronymic + last name (though Evaoriia is a weird enough name that I wonder if it was mis-copied). "edno" means "one" or "a", but I don't recognize "sjirze sae". </div>
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<div>Catherine</div>
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<div>>>> Mark J Awakuni-Swetland <<a href="mailto:mawakuni-swetland2@unlnotes.unl.edu">mawakuni-swetland2@unlnotes.unl.edu</a>> 10/27/2010 11:21 AM >>><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Aloha all,</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Knowing that many of the List folkshave expertise in non-Siouan languages, I thought you all might find this of interest.</font> <br><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">The Department of Anthropology received the attached letter requesting translation assistance on a paper tag attached to a pair of moccasins/shoes.</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I am attaching a pdf of the letter for your consideration.</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any suggestions are welcome.</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks</font> <br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Mark</font> <br><br><br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Anthropology<br>and Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies)<br>University of Nebraska<br>Lincoln, NE 68588-0368<br><br></font><a href="http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://omahalanguage.unl.edu</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br></font><a href="http://omahaponca.unl.edu/"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">http://omahaponca.unl.edu</font></a><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><br>Phone 402-472-3455<br>FAX: 402-472-9642</font></div></div>
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