The following is the Ponka sentence as given by the gesturer in
connection with the several gestures as made:
---- |Na[n]'-ba|ja[n] [k]i|a-g[c]e'|ta mi[=n]'-ke|[t]i|wi'-wi-a t[)e]'-[t]a.
(1) | (3) | (2) | (4) | (5) |(6) | (7)
The following is the full sentence as spoken by Ponkas without regard
to gesture, and its literal translation:
Na[n]'-ba| ja[n]|[k][)i]|a-g[c]e'| ta'|mi[=n]'-ke| [t]i |wi'-wi-[t]a|te'-[t]a.|--
Two |night,| if, | I go |will| I who |lodge | my own | the, |to.
|sleep | when |homeward| | | | | one, |
standing |
object, |
The Pani gestures were given with the accompanying words, viz:
| Pit' ku-r[)e]t' | ka'-ha | wi | ta-tukh'-ta | a-ka'-ru | ru-r[)e]t'-i-ru.
(1)| (3) | (2) | (4)| (5) | (6) | (7)
I | (In) two | nights | I | am going | house | to my.
The orthography in the above sentences, as in others where the
original text is given (excepting the Dakota and Ojibwa), is that
adopted by Maj. J.W. POWELL in the second edition of the _Introduction
to the Study of Indian Languages_. _Washington_, 1880. The characters
more particularly requiring explanation are the following, viz:
_[c]_, as _th_ in _then_, _though_.
_[=n]_, as _ng_ in _sing_, _singer_; Sp. _luengo_.
_[k]_, an intermediate sound between _k_ and _g_ in _gig_.
_kh_, as the German _ch_, in _nacht_.
_[t]_, an intermediate sound between _t_ and _d_.
Nasalized vowels are written with a superior _n_, thus: _a[n]_,
_e[n]_.
The following phrases were obtained by the same authority from
Antonito, son of Antonio Azul, chief of the Pimas in Arizona.