Linguist

[Carolyn Quintero]

I'd be happy to help you out with those dots and squiggles as they apply to wazhazhe.  The dots you refer to must be those in La Flesche.

I do have an explanation of how the orthography of the LF dictionary (except for a number of errors and a number of Omaha words) compares with the standard Siouanist usage in Osage Grammar p.80.  There are only a few characters (including a couple of squiggles, and nasal "tails" on the vowels) to learn for Osage that would seem unlike English characters, and I'd be happy to help you learn them. 

You can call me at my office in Tulsa, Inter Lingua Inc.

Carolyn Quintero

-----Original Message-----
>From: Clark Batson <clarkbatson at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 5, 2007 6:27 PM
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Linguist
>
>As a native person learning his native language,  wazhazhe, that knows 
>nothing about linguistics and is totally confused by all the "dots and 
>squiggles" linguists seem to love so much.  If some of you could offer 
>suggestions about how a native person would go about learning the basics of 
>linguistic theory and practice and all the symbols and technical jargon that 
>goes along with it or a good book to read about it  it would be appreciated.
>
>Clark Batson
>
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