(fwd) Native American Language

[jeffkopp at att.net]

Hi, guys.  Well, I received this inquiry from someone who viewed the =
Tenas
Wawa page, and it is way over my head technically.  Perhaps one of the
linguists in the groups might be able to help him.

Regards,

Jeff

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 04:46:26 -0700, "Johan Bjornson"
<flodisfont at mailexcite.com> wrote:

Dear friend,

I found Your email address through Wayne Leman's Native American Indian
languages links page at http://www.mcn.net/~wleman/  I hope You'll spend =
a
minute or two answering the attached questions below. -->

I'm a Swedish student, researching for a project on the prevalence among
non-Slavists -- that is, speakers of native North American Indian =
languages
-- to  use the letter scaron (=3D8A) for the English grapheme /sh/ when =
that
diacritic character is coded at ASCII values 138 and 156 in the Latin 1
(ISO-8859-1) character scheme.

One of my goals is to get hold on people's thoughts on why this typical
North American Indians' and Slavists' sign is chosen to be a component of
the U.S./E.U. character coding Latin 1.

If the ortography of the Native language(s) You're familiar with employs
the letter scaron for /sh/, please answer the questions:

1) Do You use the letter scaron when writing in a native language on the
computer, or do You prefer /sh/? Have You ever wondered why scaron
is a included in Latin 1? Did You "find out" the true reason (does such
one exist?), or concluded something on Your own?

2) Is "s with superimposed angle" common in the native language
handwriting?

3) In what terminology do the natives refer to scaron?

Again, by filling out this query, You hand in invaluable aid for my
research process.  Many thanks in advance!

Regards,

Johan Bj=3DF6rnson,
Malm=3DF6, SWEDEN


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