Sioux language font (fwd)

[Koontz John E]

I think this might have been meant for the list.

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:36:37 -0500
From: Timothy Dunnigan <dunni001 at umn.edu>
To: Leonard Bruguier <bruguier at usd.edu>
Cc: John.Koontz at COLORADO.EDU, wablenica at mail.ru
Subject: Re: Sioux language font

Dear Leonard,

Regarding your inquiry about the availability of a Dakota font, the Dakota
Language Program in the Department of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the
University of Minnesota is using a version of a font developed by Alan
Ominsky for the Dakota Language Committee chaired by Dr. Christian
Matonunpa, a Professor of American Indian and Dakota Studies at Southwest
State University, Minnesota.  Dr. Matonunpa and his daughter Dr. Angela
Wilson (Professor of History at Arizona State University) decided to mark
unaspirated p, t, c, k with a dot positioned below the letter, while
leaving their aspirated counterparts unmarked.  A dot is positioned over
the letter to represent alveopalatal s and z and velar h and g.  The Riggs
convention of representing vowel nasalization with an angma (velar n) is
maintained.  The marking of primary and secondary stress on vowels is also
an option.  The typing macros are ALT+Cntl+(letter) for small case.  The
Shift+..., of course, capitalizes.  The font permits both bolding and
italicizing.

AIS has made aspiration the marked case.  While the typing macros are
simple for Mac applications, the AIS version requires the use of the
numerical key pad for PC applications.  I could try to send you a
simplified PC version (use of the numeric keys unnecessary) as an email
attachment, if your interested.

Tim Dunnigan