symbol sets and rattlesnake.

[Alan Knutson]

Available on any "Windows" machine are additional characters, these are
typed by pressing the 'alt' key
and a sequence of numbers:

ie.

alt0138     S
alt0154     s
alt0227     ã
alt0240     ð
alt0230     æ
alt0241     ñ

many more are available, this is just a sample.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: symbol sets and rattlesnake.


>
> I guess we'd best go back to the 26 letters of the English alphabet plus
the
> usual diacritics like ~ (tilde) and ^ (circumflex) for our net Siouan.  It
> occurs to me that our European readers may not display $ as a dollar sign
> but rather as a Euro sign, pound sign or some other currency.  I guess
I'll
> go back to using ' for accent also.
>
> > The Miami-Illinois name for the Massasauga (the smaller of the two
> species of rattlesnakes in that area) is /$iih$iikwia/ ($ = s-hacek).
>
> For what it's worth, s^ekki looks like a loan to me too.
>
> Kansa we'c?a s^ekku' (where u is u-umlaut).
>
> but Quapaw we's?a-xti  'snake+intensifier' "real snake".
>
> Bob
>