[Choctaw -- I forgot to add a subject last time]

>From: Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
>Where did you find this?  Is it on the web anywhere?
>
> >Ha!  I found a sample of Choctaw text.: the first few paragraphs of one
>of
> >the Oklahoma Choctaw Constitutions, what year I can't say.
>
>I've looked at the English versions from 1983 and 1979, and neither of them
>seem to match this Choctaw text.
It's on the web as a facsimile of a printed document, a .gif I think... but
I lost it!  I'll have to send you the file.

It's not a "certified" copy because it has a lot of typos (the v-vowel is
italicized, but so are adjacent l's, and c appears where v should in a
couple places, etc.

I'll send you the picture file immediately after this post.

>  I changed the
> >underlined vowels to vowels with tildes (since Latin-1 lacks i-tilde, I
> >rendered nasal i as i~)
>
>It must be a pretty recent rendition to have underlined nasals.  But it has
>other features I find rather bizarre, such as _aivlhpiesa_: the sequence
><ie>
>would be phonetically [ii:] (short i followed by long i).  Hard to see that
>as
>a real pronunciation.
Are you sure you're not thinking in Chickasaw vowel phonology?  The data on
Choctaw I got has /e/ and /i/ listed in given pronunciation, and this came
from a list of common words/phrases on Choctaw Nation pages.  There are
sound files somewhere.

It's just not as easy to find a lot of data on a language spoken by
thousands instead of millions...

DaW.
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