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Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary
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Language Name
Omaha-Ponca.
Alternate Language Names
Umóⁿhoⁿ, Umonhon, Paⁿka.
Region
Nevada and Oklahoma, United States.
Who
Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Catherine Rudin.
Others Involved
Katherine Walter, Brian Pytlik Zillig, Laura Weakly, Stacy Rickel, Karin Dalziel, Brent Baum (Digital Research in the Humanities team). Justin Hathaway, David Nesheim, Jianguo Wang, Jacob Hilton (student staff). Smithsonian Museum, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Publishing Information
Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2008-2011). It is unclear if it has been updated since.
How People are Cited
About section.
How Information is Cited
About section.
Where is Information Coming from
"This multimedia language resource is being created from a 19th century unpublished Omaha/Ponca word list collected by James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895). The original slip file housed in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution was microfilmed by the Project Director in 1988." (Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary, About Page)
Tools and Framework used
Text.
Access
Open.
Included Languages and Directionality
Omaha-Ponca to English, English to Omaha-Ponca.
Dialects Included
Type of Dictionary
Word list.
How are Entries Organised
Alphabetically by Omaha-Ponca, alphabetically by English.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| Guide to use and understand | ❌ | |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ✅ | |
| Example phrases | ✅ | Included alongside word entries |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ❌ |