A Plea tor Conformity and Some Amendments to Reichard

Clarence Sloat, University of Oregon

This paper has two principal aims. The first of these

is to suggest a standard orthography of familiar symbols for

Coeur d' Alene. The second is to make available information

which I thi.nk will make Gladys Reichard is published materials

on Coeur d' Alene commensurate with modern practice and more

&©curats@ The information here presented developed out of a

consideration of Reichard's work in relation to the results

of my own field work with and analysi.s of Coe"ux d' Alene un­

d~rtaken in the p;!rlod 1964-1966 (for details see Sloat

1966,pl"eface) ..

I should point out that I am only too aware of the

nGU futility of suggesti.ng standard practice in transcribing·

a langtl.age, but I believe that an alphabet of symbols which

are familiar and immediately suggestive of the phonetic materi­

al they classify is preferable to an alphabet of unfamiliar

s;Y1iibols or of familiar symbols with. unusual values ..

It ae0ms that· almost; everyone who works with Reichard's

Salishan material revises her transcription of it.. Se~, for

ex~ple, Reichard 1958, (edited. by Florence M. Voegelin)~ p.

293: footnote to the title; Swadesh 1952, p. 237; or yogt

1940, pp~ 13, 16-19. Particularly likely to be changed

is her renderi,ng of 'the shi bilants and affricates ~ However ~

the retranscri.ptions presented in the works ju.st. cited are

.1

s

R o eney

t;

es

It 1

is not

should have writ-

s a fol'"

ero ~

c{.n~~~. ~~ ~ ~ w~:.-r~~'4·

ts

of

i 1

t

1st en"' ..

s s. c

places ...

t or

'a

() eet

t~ion

8t1r d. A I

are

O.ll

er to

a s

i · "iT t~Obr, .. 1 7 -19 ... !1 ~ og .t "} rv W p <.. ..\.:) .. .

~ like Swad , chooses

ottali za:t llogt

erscribed period for the

I dO:tl ~ t

ed from

fa S Etlan.)

:ts his itut

his eli.mi.nation the

s I reeomm

t on

ut

[ R} ~t19--<Y"; U ~Lh(fU..{~

+0 v-

k

( es l,t ,it~ vO'dal

that

occurs tlon, it is as a

OCClU':'

t

t """ bBt, tS~

Thlj! '¥o1rJela of Cot-nix' d ~ Alent! may be represen:te('l by

i ~j ~a.R

(I,,)

~ ~ t~:!. & Q

I have used ~ in my

question .. In the chart

Now I would. l:tke ,to suggest a few procedurt)s by wh:i.eh

R~lehard ~ IS published Coeur d' Alen.s materials may be made le:$~ '"") ,...--

A bibliograph~' of her materials

some other relevant \'iork is appended. to this paper ..

1" /i/ does not occu.r ·unstressed. except under the e(n::.v-

0.1 tiona detai.led above.. Retranscribe Reichardt s unstressed

..

, but not

#6 b4:Jlowo

i as I For

2~ Retranscribe R~ichard~& I~I a3 IiI when

as lui tI'!J.en ~mstressed.. This will give the resu.ltl~

wh~re ~eichard has not actually erred in recording~

CIlSfJ that she has tl no ger.u~I'a11zation '<rItll suffice put

loving:

a~ /&/ does not occur ed

exhaustive lists ot suffixes are

II 432-589, ppa 601-30~ Theae lists

include th~ pronominal endinga~ fer

369, pp~ 573-880 Retranscribe I~I aB /~I in

b~ /£/ doss not occur stress~d

of the £auca!!z1n~ ~onsonant!. The faucalizing conson­

ants comprise the sounds listed in. t,ne following classes

in the chart in Reichard 1933~ ~ 47, p~ 531:

i.. velar

iii.. trills ( three su.bclasses)

Before such consonants in the same word write le/ for

Reichard's /e./"

lui

pO!i1tion ..

., ~¥ Ji""o

in a.1.1

she has written /lu?up/~

should be omitted from all ~ueh form~:

t I 606, P<> 63? .. , '" uV ?" d V? 1 (Jccur~n.ce~ oX .!..., and L as Y an .!-,.

remarks and references above

.:!" Contrary to Reichard (1.93311

a glottal stop in thia

COnSOl!.ants occur contigucnAIi

Reichard writes Ru I~ao~

BIBLIOGRAPHY

R~ichard, Glady_ A. t Coeur d' Alene, in Franz Boaz, ed.~ Hand­book ot ~er:tc!:l !n<!Ian Ilan6¥l!Sel!. part' 311 New Yorlt"r"" Iu~~atTn, i9;;.

~"",,........-' !~Stem-li8t of the Coeur d' Alene Language, it ].JAL 10.92 .... 108(19;9)& '

<==---' "Composition and Symbolism ot Coeur d' Alene Verb Stems," IJAJJ 11.47-63 (1945)0

",,_~t (ed~ by ~ence M. Voegelin), itA COIl~arlson of Five Salish Langllages, U IJ'AL 24.29365(1958); 25.8-15, 90-6, 1;4-67, 239-5~59); 26.50-61(1960). These articl~s have been reprinted and. are available from !l~ bound together.

Sloat, Ce9 Phonological Redundan~ Rules in Coeur 4° Alene, Un! vmitt ot: Yishlngton p • -n. Dfiiertatloii, Ami Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.

Swe.desh, Ii., uThe Linguistic Approach to Salish Prehlstor:,r, n j.n Mcu;ian W # 8m! til '» ed. il Indians of the Urban Northwest 11

liew York, 1949~ pp .. 161-73. - - - - ... • _t QfSe,lish Phonologic Geogr8.phy~ n!!.sf) 28.232-49(1952).

Vogt II Hems!) &~li6~1.l ?tudi,.!!,s Oslo, 1940.