Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (Jan 1994)

NOTES ON THE KANSA WORD LIST OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED

  • Rankin, Robert L.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.323
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19
pp. 11 – 57

Abstract

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The Kansa word list, collected in ca. 1833 by Prince Maximilian of Wied, is compared with two more recent transcriptions of the same terms. Observations about the phonology are offered which, in turn, clarify the ultimate source of Maximilian's list.

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