Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836

Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation

In this book, I have defaulted to spellings of native words, such as the proper names of talwas, to those used by Benjamin Hawkins in the late eighteenth century (Foster 2003a). I used his spellings because he lived among and studied the language of the Creek Indians during the time with which this book deals. He wrote native words in a syllabic form in an attempt to preserve the pronunciation . Elsewhere, I have spelled Muskogee (Maskókî) words according to their English spelling. Muskogee is the English term for the Maskókî (Martin and Mauldin 2000:xiii, 74). In Maskókî, the “k” is pronounced like a soft “g” in English. A “g” is pronounced with a hard “g” sound. All vowels are in their short form. The suf¤x -alkî is pronounced like “algee.” Pronunciations are derived from Martin and Mauldin (2000). Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715–1836 ...