SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 



87 



I. Pawnee, Kitsai, and Wichita. 



A. Pawnee: a) South Band Pawnee (or Pawnee proper) 



spoken by: 

 pi'tahawira't" 

 tsawi"'' 

 kitkghaxki'' 



b) Skiri^ Pawnee 



c) Ankara 



B. Kitsai : tikitse's band of the Wichita. 



C. Wichita: a) Wichita proper, spoken by: 



toka'ne 



tsi's 



tiwa' 



tta" 



ktriktri's 



akwi'ts 

 b) Probably dialectically divergent: 



tawakaruw' 



weku' 

 II. Caddo: a) Caddo proper; spoken by: 



nada'rko 



nacidoc 



ya't'as 



nak'ohodo'tsi 



ha'i'c 



kaygmaici 



kado'gdatc'" 

 b) Hainai; spoken by: 



hainai 



nabadaitcu 

 ?c) ?Adai 



' Skirl is used herein for Skidi. The d of earlier records is the Pawnee r; see 

 the phonetic key above. 



to has its usual affricative character in Caddo, while in Arikara it is more inter- 

 mediate. 



w is slightly more rounded than in English. 



Vowels: 



With a few exceptions, the s^'mbols for vowels indicate the usual continental 

 A^alues as follows: a as in father; a (Greek alpha) as u in but; e as a in fate; e (Greek 

 epsilon) as e in met; ias ee in feet; i (Greek iota) as i in hit; as o in go; u as oo in 

 hoot. Exceptional is e in Pawnee, where in making the sound the lips are very 



