[DCRM-L] transcription of phonetic alphabet

[Rich, Allison]

Dear Chloe:

I am going to forward your query to our urator for Native American and
Indigenous Material, Kim Toney.
I think that she may have some people you can contact for this, if she
can't help you herself.

Best,
Allison

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM Ottenhoff, Chloe via DCRM-L <
dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I would like to update the record for a Micmac language Book of Psalms
> (1859), translated by Silas Tertius Rand adapting characters from Isaac
> Pitman’s and Alexander John Ellis’s phonetic alphabet.
>
> A surrogate is available here:
> https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100263106
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%27kmaq_language#Writing_system
>
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/English_Phonotypic_Alphabet_-_1847.png
>
>
>
> There are several OCLC records available, some that substitute unavailable
> characters for approximate characters, some that supply the intended sound
> in square brackets, and some that do neither (OCLC 234125621, 977838576,
> and 15068741, respectively, for examples). There is a romanization table
> for Deseret, which was also based on the Pitman system, but not sure
> whether the same principles apply, and many of the characters are
> different. Should long and short vowels be distinguished and how? Sounds
> supplied?
>
>
>
> My thoughts are along the lines below:
>
> [Th]e Buk ov Samz : $b in Mikmak.
>
> Printed for [th]e Briti[sh] and Foren Beibel Sōseieti, bei Eizak Pitman,
> Ba[th] (Bath) (but the character “th” character in “THE” at head of title
> doesn’t match the one in the first “BATH”)
>
> T.p. verso: Printed bei Eizak Pitman, Fōnetik Institincon, Parson[ee]dj
> l[ee]n Ba[th]
>
> Colophon: Printed bei Eizak Pitman, Fōnetik Institi[oo]t, Parson[ee]dj
> l[ee]n Ba[th]
>
>
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Chloe
>
>
>
> *CHLOE OTTENHOFF*
> *Rare Book & Manuscript Cataloging Coordinator*
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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John Carter Brown Library
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