University of Nebraska – Lincoln uses an orthography similar to the orthographic style of Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche in "The Omaha Tribe" to transcribe the Umóⁿhoⁿ language.
Symbol | Umóⁿhoⁿ example | notes |
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◌◌ | ččèshka | Held long or tense unaspirated consonant |
◌ʰ◌ | óⁿpʰoⁿ | Aspirated consonant (Unicode 02B0) - All capitals version ◌ᴴ (Unicode 1D34) |
◌̣ | x̣agé | Muted consonant (Underdot, Unicode 0323) |
◌̌ | táx̌ti | Harsh consonant (Hacek, Unicode 030C) |
◌ⁿ◌ | óⁿba | Nasalized vowel (Unicode 207F) - All capitals version ◌ᴺ (Unicode 1D3A) IPA suggests that a superscript "n" be used but we have had troubles with superscript format being lost when changing versions of editors so we have chosen to use a Unicode marker for nasalization. |
◌̀ | wèduba | Accented syllable, pitch falling (Grave, Unicode 0300) |
◌́ | wiwítta | Accented syllable, pitch rising (Acute, Unicode 0301) |
◌̂ | shêtʰe | Accented vowel in which the pitch rises and falls (Circumflex, Unicode 0302) |
◌̄ | āthada | Accented syllable with a moderately long vowel (Macron, Unicode 0304) |
◌ˀ◌ | tˀé | Glottal stop (Unicode 02C0) (capitalizing ʡùde or ˀÙde, consensus seems to be ˀÙde; ʡ Unicode 02A1) |
ε | hóⁿεⁿgoⁿče | only used nasalized (Unicode 025B) |
The diacritic marks used here are IPA symbols in Unicode fonts. You can download the font Charis SIL from http://www.sil.org.