Re: Lakota reprise: (Re)birth of a character

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 22:19:18 EST


'leven Digit Boy expostulated:

> Just put in that letter.

  |\ |
  | \ |
  | \ |
  | \ |
  | \|
        \
         \

> THAT is the letter you mean, right?
> And it's NOT IN UNICODE?!

Well, no, not exactly. To borrow the ASCII art technique,
it is:
    ____
  |/ \
  | |
  | |
  | |
  | |
        |
        |

That is, a capital form based on the shape of U+019E.

See Albert White Hat, Sr., Reading and Writing the Lakota
Language (Lakota Iyapi un Wowapi nahan Yawapi), 1999,
p. 12. The chapter heading, WOUNSPE TOKAHE (The First
Teaching) is in all-caps, and what I have roughly indicated
here in ASCII with an "N" is actually the letter shown above.

--Ken



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