Tutelo 1st dual/plural forms.

[BARudes at aol.com]

Everyone - i.e. Gatschet, Speck, Michelson, Swadesh, Swanton, McDavid, 
Siebert - made serious transcription errors in recording Catawba vowels and citing 
forms from any source without carefull philological analysis and comparison 
with other sources can be misleading. Speck, McDavid, and Siebert all worked with 
with Sally Gordon; she was McDavid's sole consultant and Speck's and 
Siebert's primary consultant.

Catawba has a total of twelve vowel phonemes, which are grouped in three 
sets: (1) short oral - /i e a u/, (2) long oral - /i: e: a: u:/, and (3) nasal 
(which are non-distinctively long) - /iN eN aN uN/. The short oral vowel /u/ 
appears as phonetic [u] when stressed and as a centralized rounded vowel when 
unstressed. The long oral vowel /u:/ appears as [o:] when stressed and as [u] when 
unstressed. So there is a phonetic contrast between [u] (phonemic /u/) and 
[o:] (phonemic /u:). The phoneme /uN/ can appear as phonetic [oN], but so can 
phoneme /aN/. And many of the research also wrote phonetic [cN] (nasal open-o, 
the result of a phonetic contraction) as [oN]. So, the first person plural 
morphemes nu an du: could appear phonetically as [nu] and [do:], but neither 
contains a nasal vowel.

Blair  
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