Usage of w/m in Tutelo pronouns

[Alan H. Hartley]

Bob Rankin wrote:

> I believe that in her analysis she felt that the sounds [m] and [w]
> were treated as the same sound by Tutelo/Saponi speakers.

Cf. two of Meriwether Lewis's records of Sacagawea's (Hidatsa) name, 
Sah-cah-gar-we-ah and Sah-ca-gar me-ah (both with silent -r- indicating 
a "broad" pronunciation of the preceding -a-).

John Koontz and Bob Rankin several years ago pointed out to me the w/m 
alternation in Hidatsa, and Wes Jones explained that "the alternation of 
w/m (and r/n) is not really free.  The nasal forms appear after pause, 
i.e. word initially in very careful speech and in syllabification."

Alan