JOD orthographic oddity

[George Wilmes]

Mark (and others),

I am not qualified to speak about Dorsey or the languages in question,
but I can say:

1. Those sure look like dots to me!
2. According to the Unicode standard (which I realize came much
later!), two dots (diaeresis) below means "IPA: breathy voice or
murmur".

What I don't know is what two dots below might have meant in Dorsey's time.

George

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Mark J Awakuni-Swetland
<mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:
> http://omahalanguage.unl.edu/dictionary_images/nu/opd.03.005.09c.jpg
>
>
> Aloha All,
>
> Catherine located another Dorsey orthographic oddity. The image link is
> above.
>
> Can anyone interpret the diacritic under the /u/ in the cognates?
>
> It appears to have two under dots.
>
> There are two samples of it.
>
> Catherine reported finding a /u/ with what appears to be an under tilde
> elsewhere.
>
> We are unsure if the two under dots are just a poorly scribed tilde.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mark
>
>
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