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Working with the Siouan languages requires a character set extended beyond what is provided in the ANSI (Windows), Extended ASCII (DOS), ..., or ... sets.  Crow doesn't strain it much, in fact parts are even left over, but the Mississippi Valley Languages and variant notations used before the present day require some extensions.  Siouanist usage, past and present, does fall within the coverage of ISO ... (aka Unicode).   This page provides access to some Siounist character sets we are experimenting with under the name Standard Siouan fonts.  It also provides descriptions of some older character representation schemes we have used. 

Standard Siouan Fonts (TrueType)

These fonts are in TrueType format and have been used under Windows 3.11 and Windows 95.  They were prepared with the aid of the Summer Institute for Linguistics's fantastic Encore Fonts package.  They may be freely used for scholarly and popular use. 

The fonts are in three faces developed by the SIL:  Doulos (serif proportional), Sophia (sansserif proportional), and Manuscript (serif monospaced).  Each face is available in roman, oblique, bold roman, and bold oblique versions.  Several characters sets are available here. 

Standard Siouan (for modern linguistic and popular use)
Dakotanist (for traditional Dakotan work)
BAE (for general Siouan work in the Bureau of American Ethnography character set and some other older forms)
ANSI (the standard ANSI set, in case you need to use it in a face that matches the others provided here)
Phonetic (some modern phonetic characters to augment the segmental representation supported by Standard Siouan)

Draft documentation is available for the fonts.

Keyboarding Standard Siouan for Windows 95

You can keyboard some of the fonts under Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 using TavulteSoft's KeyMan package (Version 3.2) (Version 4.0 is also now available) and keyboard definitions which we provide and in some cases document.  This is a work in progress and we don't provide keyboard definitions for all of the fonts in all of their applications.  And we're not all that happy with the definitions we do provide.  In fact, you may want to modify these definitions to suit yourself, or use this tool or another like it to define your own keyboards. 

(These are currently included in the font archives.)

Siouanist (to use Siouanist for modern linguistic and popular use)
Riggs (to use Dakotanist for the Riggs transcription)
Boas & Deloria (to use Dakotanist for the Boas & Deloria transcription)
Buechel (to use Dakotanist for the Buechel transcription)

A Brief Desciption of What We Did Under DOS

Pending. 

Siouan Archives Encoding (original)

Pending. 

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Last modified: May 17, 1999