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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">Thanks! For those of you still teaching (or attending) classes this fall, best wishes on the first hectic, exciting week, and remember, those pesky young freshman
are somebody’s babies </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings; color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">. (My eldest son starts U of Arkansas this year.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">If anyone is seriously interested in commenting on my grammar sketch in progress, let me know, and I’ll send you a copy. A few corrections and additions have been
made to the version that’s on Jimm’s site now, but I want to get it in near final form before we change it out again, and it’s always nice to have someone else’s eye (not to mention brain) take a look.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">Best wishes,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">Jill</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Siouan Linguistics [mailto:SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rankin, Robert L.<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:45 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: NAME</span></p>
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> Bob and all the other historical folks- Remember that there’s no phonemic nasal O in Jiwere, so how do those Dhegiha phonemes Mark was pointing out translate into IOM? Would it be an oral O, or a nasal U?
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The nasal rounded vowel is sometimes pronounced [oN] and sometimes [uN] in Dakota. But there's never any contrast between the two. Omaha merged aN and uN, so even that distinction isn't made in OM. In their practical orthography they write the merged nasal
vowel as "oN", and it's pronounced like nasal open O, sort of like the vowel in "haunt".</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">> And now, to muddy things up more, let me add that there are a lot of times where there is a vowel phonetically closer to a nasal schwa to my ear, but those are
usually an underlying A</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">n. </span><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"; color:#1F497D">But Hamilton and Irvin did occasionally write a nasal
O, if I’m remembering things correctly. </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I think probably all Siouan languages have a nasal schwa. As far as I know it is always just a variant of nasal short /aN/. The corresponding long vowel should be [a] with nasality.
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