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Title: Illustration Of The Method Of Recording Indian Languages
From the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology,
Smithsonian Institution

Author: J.O. Dorsey, A.S. Gatschet, and S.R. Riggs

Release Date: November 11, 2005 [EBook #17042]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Transcriber's note: The following symbols are used to represent
special characters:
[n] = raised (superscript) "n"
[t] = turned (inverted) "t"
[k] = turned "k"
[K] = turned "K"
[T] = turned "T"
[k=] = "k" with inferior macron
[k.] = "k" with inferior dot
[=x] = any letter "x" with superior macron
[)x] = any letter "x" with superior breve
[/x] = any letter "x" with acute accent
[`x] = any letter "x" with grave accent
[~x] = any letter "x" with superior tilde
[^x] = any letter "x" with superior circumflex
[:x] = any letter "x" with superior diaeresis
[ng] = lower-case "eng" character
[x] = Greek letter chi
[c] = "c" with slash (cent sign)
['] = single (curly) closing quote

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

J.W. POWELL, DIRECTOR.

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ILLUSTRATION OF THE METHOD

OF

RECORDING INDIAN LANGUAGES.

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FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF MESSRS. J.O. DORSEY, A.S. GATSCHET, AND S.R.
RIGGS.

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ILLUSTRATION OF THE METHOD OF RECORDING INDIAN LANGUAGES.

HOW THE RABBIT CAUGHT THE SUN IN A TRAP.

AN OMAHA MYTH, OBTAINED FROM F. LAFLECHE BY J. OWEN DORSEY.

Egi[c]e|mactci[~n]'ge|ak[/a]| i[k]a[n]' |[c]i[~n]k[/e]|en[/a]-qtci|
It came| rabbit | the | his | the st. | only |
to pass| | sub. |grandmother| ob. | |

|[t]ig[c]e|j[/u]gig[c][/a]-biam[/a].