920 COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGY OF FOUR SIOUAN LANGUAGES. 



3. £01 were, in two (?) dialects: spoken by the Iowas, Otos, and Mis- 

 souris. 



4. Hotcaugara or Winnebago. 



5. Mandan, in two dialects. 



6. Hidatsa, in two dialects: Hidatsa and Absaroka. 



7. Ye-sa n , or Tutelo. 



The three surviving Tntelos are with the Six Nations, in Canada, and 

 the Hon. Horatio Hale has been making special investigations concern- 

 ing their history and language. 



The writer has obtained about 20,000 words of the Ponka dialect, 

 4,900 Kansas words, 3,500 Osage words, about 9,000 of the j,oiwere, and 

 over 1,100 of the Hotcangara. He gained over 1,000 Kwapa words, but 

 lie is unwilling to publish any of this material at present. 



Table I. — The Siouan Alphabet. 



This alphabet includes all the sounds which the writer has found 

 among the tribes speaking the four languages, Dakota, $egiha, j^oiwere, 

 and Hotcangara. It is substantially that adopted by the Bureau of 

 Ethnology in 1880, and used by the writer in his monograph, "The $e- 

 giha Language," to be published as "Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology, Vol. VI." 



