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Subject: Re: Hawai'ian placenames and typographical characters
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:47 -1000
From: G. Salim Mohammed <[log in to unmask]>
Becky,
Aside from paying heed to Riley Moffat's posting, your best resource
for place names is:
http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis/bgn/
The site has both pdfs and excel files on spelling including all
Hawaiian characters/diacritical
marks, etc. The site also includes fonts that you can download and use.
If you are looking for a contact name to talk more about this, depending
on the scope
and scale of your project, I suggest you contact Renee Louis who
presented on her
project at HIGICC's (Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council)
who has
been working with GNIS to correct names/spellings etc. I'll be happy
to give you her
e-mail address should you decide to pursue this. Her presentation is
available here:
http://www.higicc.org/
More specific to your "for instance" question, the glottal stop is not
used in Hawaiian
but is used in Hawai'i.
Hope this helps,
--
G. Salim Mohammed, Maps/GIS Librarian
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http://magis.manoa.hawaii.edu
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library
2550 McCarthy Mall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
"Live simply so others can simply live." -Gandhi.
Maps-L Moderator wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Hawai'ian placenames
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 11:32:58 -0500
> From: Becky Lowery <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>
> I received this question from another librarian and her request was
> from the American Name Society. Does anyone know the answer to the
> question about the appropriate typographic character used for glottal
> stops? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Becky Lowery
> UIC Maps Library
>
>> Subject: Hawai'ian placenames
>
> I'm working on a map of O'ahu and trying to determine which
> typographic character is proper to use for the glottal stop:
> the opening single quote, the closing single quote/apostrophe, or the
> prime mark?
>
> Any advice or pointers? Also, any pitfalls that a mainlander should
> watch out for, such as (purely as an example) eliminating it in
> adjectival forms (like the subject line of this email) or some such?
>>
>
> --
> Rebecca Lowery
> Maps and Data Services Librarian (MC-234)
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> Chicago, IL 60680
>
> (312) 996-5277
>
> A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show
> the realization of great dreams.
>
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