Ioway baxoje, paoutet, etc.

[RLR]

> I have seen both tch and dj (or, I think, dge) in early 1700s
> French transcriptions specifically of Ioway-Otoe. On the other hand, it
> occurs to me that a version with t might well be a Miami-Illinois version.

But that says nothing about the phonetic value of <t> preceding <e, i>
in other transcriptions by other individuals. My point is that those
spellings simply do not show that Ioway-Otoe-Missouria still had [t]
before front vowels.

B.