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Title: Haida texts and myths, Skidegate dialect
Author: John Reed Swanton (1873–1958) Info https://viaf.org/viaf/41912840/
File generation date: 2024-08-01 20:05:58 UTC
Language: English
Original publication date: 1905
Encoding
The Haida language in this work is written with a number of additional symbols (see the Introduction), some of which are common punctuation marks. To disambiguate those marks and make processing easier, those marks have been replaced with more specialized Unicode characters that look similar. Their use also make the text slightly more readable.
Original Replacement Unicode
full stop . combining dot below (g̣, G̣, x̣, X̣, ḷ, Ḷ, ʟ̣) letter followed by U+0323
plus sign + Superscript plus sign (⁺) U+207A
exclamation mark ! modifier letter raised exclamation mark (ꜝ) U+A71D
A number of additional characters and combinations appear that are not explained in the Introduction. These have been left unchanged.
Since the titles of stories are set in small-caps, it is not possible to distinguish small-caps styled a from the special letter ᴀ. When unsure, they have been encoded as a, but where possible, the special letter ᴀ has been restored in such cases. The upper-case of ʟ is not defined in Unicode (and would be hard to distinguish from a regular upper-case L). However, cases of Ḷ are always the uppercase variant of ʟ̣.
Hyphenated Haida words have been restored, using a soft-hyphen character, except when the unhyphenated word is present in the text, in which case the hyphen is removed or retained as the case may be.
Repeated words and phrases in songs were indicated with |: … :|, these have been replaced with the Unicode musical repeat signs 𝄆 … 𝄇.
All end-notes have been moved in-line in the TEI file, and will appear as end-notes again in the finale generated HTML versions. Some notes have been renumbered as a result.
This book contains three main parts, in the first part, the English translation and intralinear text were placed underneath each other on the same page, in the second part, the translation and original text were placed on facing pages, with the English left and Haida right, and finally, in the third part, we only have English translations. In unpaged media, this cannot be reproduced, so here I have placed the intralinear text after the English in the first part and placed the English and Haide side-by-side in the second part.
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Corrections
The following 123 corrections have been applied to the text:
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3 qā′-idjit qā′-idjît 1 / 0
5, 9, 22, 22, 37, 66, 126, 188, 241, 286, 286, 338, 404 [Not in source] . 1
9, 204, 204, 246, 300, 338, 354, 399, 406, 413, 444 [Not in source] ” 1
17 Īłdī′nī Îłdī′nī 1 / 0
15 Îłdī′ni Îłdī′nī 1 / 0
17, 38, 228, 354, 431, 434 . , 1
18, 312, 401 , . 1
21 Wᴀgiê′n Wᴀ′giên 2
26 [Not in source] , 1
30 Fine-weather woman Fine-weather-woman 1
29, 31, 330, 402 [Not in source] “ 1
31 [Not in source] : 1
34 Edensaw Edenshaw 1
44 qā-′idjît qā′-idjît 2
44 Middle-Gîti′ns Middle-Gîtî′ns 1 / 0
53 Sînxē′ga.ño Sînxē′gᴀño 2
55 g̣ā′yawa.i g̣ā′yawa-i 1
78 Gî′tîns’-servants Gîtî′ns’-servants 2
82 Food-giving town Food-giving-town 1
75 g̣āstî′ñ g̣astî′ñ 1 / 0
75 g̣astî′n g̣astî′ñ 1 / 0
90 ha′dja hadja 1
89 Gitko′na Gîtko′na 1 / 0
94, 111 marten skin marten-skin 1
97 travelling traveling 1
100, 100 Seaward-Sqoa′ładas Seaward-Sqoā′ładas 1 / 0
102 Seaward-sqoa′ładas Seaward-sqoā′ładas 1 / 0
102 Gîtîns Gîtî′ns 1
103 Djax̣ui′-sqoa′ładaga.i Djax̣ui′-sqoa′ładaga-i 1
107 qaʟꜝxā′sga.gᴀni qaʟꜝxā′sgag̣ᴀni 2 / 1
107 łkꜝí′nxet łkꜝî′nxet 1 / 0
117 out out out 4
119 Nᴀñki′lsʟas-łiña′-i Nᴀñkî′lsʟas-łiña′-i 1 / 0
122 Poeple People 2
123 Nᴀñki′lsʟas-łiña′-i Nᴀñkî′lsʟas-łîña′-i 2 / 0
124 Nañkî′lsʟas Nᴀñkî′lsʟas 1
127 kneejoints knee-joints 1
129 se-e-e al se-e-e-al 1
138 “Abraham” Abraham 2
138 Flood-tide woman Flood-tide-woman 1
141 Onerula Merula 2
159 chiefs’ chief’s 2
166, 309, 386, 429, 430 Metlakatla Metlakahtla 1
167 nałgū-ū-ūłs nałgū-ū-ūs 1
191 g̣ōdᴀñxō′sgî g̣ōdañxō′sgî 1
201 Djila′qons’s Djila′qons’ 1
217 Travelling Traveling 1
227 himout him out 1
237 Qꜝᴀ́kun Qꜝᴀ′kun 1
239 became become 1
244 He-who-got-power-from-his-little-finger He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger 13
272 siezed seized 2
289 Sta-i-point Sqa-i-point 1
296 Seaward Sqoā′ładas Seaward-Sqoā′ładas 1
302 Indans Indians 1
302 tent text 1
315 - 1
313 clew clue 2
322 It’s Its 1
324 Gasî′na-ᴀ′ndjū Gasî′na-ᴀ′ndju 1 / 0
330 excresence excrescence 1
338 fine fins 1
339 “ ‘ 1
339, 388 [Not in source] ’ 1
342 phoeniceus phœniceus 2
350 neigboring neighboring 1
364 . [Deleted] 1
384 Gitî′ns’-servants Gîtî′ns’-servants 1 / 0
386 Gitî′ns’s-servants Gîtî′ns’-servants 2 / 1
388 You Your 1
397 an and 1
405 brothers-in law brothers-in-law 1
406 [Not in source] he 3
408 [Not in source] of 3
411 [Not in source] to 3
421 Gitî′ns Gîtî′ns 1 / 0
425 Situate Situated 1
429 , [Deleted] 1
431 it its 1
434 Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsgo Those-born-at-Qꜝā′dᴀsg̣o 1 / 0
435 Nda′,nda′ Nda′, nda′ 1
437 warriors warriors’ 1
438 Those-born-at Skedans Those-born-at-Skedans 1
445 He-who-was-going-to-be Gia′gudjañ He-who-was-going-to-be-Gia′gudjañ 1