Potawatomi Orthography Chart

Page Index

• Introduction
• Orthography chart
• Follow the path of the Potawatomi data

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Introduction

The writing system used here was developed in the 1970s by a team of native speakers and experts in linguistics and second language acquisition at the Wisconsin Native American Languages Program (WNALP). It is a phonemic writing system, where each letter represents a meaningful sound, and was designed for teaching the Potawatomi Language to people who do not speak it as a first language.

Orthography chart

WNALP Orthography	IPA Phonemic Value
A, a	/a:/
B, b	/b/
Ch, ch	/ʧ/
D, d	/d/
E, e	/ə/
É, é	/ɛ:/
G, g	/g/
H, h	/h/
I, i	/i:/
J, j	/ʤ/
K, k	/k/
M, m	/m/
N, n	/n/
O, o	/o:/ or /u:/
P, p	/p/
S, s	/s/
Sh, sh	/ʃ/
T, t	/t/
W, w	/w/
Y, y	/j/
Z, z	/z/
Zh, zh	/ʒ/
'	/ʔ/

Follow the path of the Potawatomi data

1. Get started: Summary of the Potawatomi conversion
2. Scan and OCR: OCR or Keyboard page (Classroom)
3. Linguistic Review of Filemaker Pro: Filemaker Pro (offsite)
4. Add Text to Database: FIELD page (Workroom)
5. Convert Data: Conversion page (Classroom)
6. Map Terminology: GOLD Ontology (Workroom)
7. Store Text: XML page (Classroom)
8. Present Text: Stylesheets page (Classroom)