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Kansas + Osage as compared with Omaha + Ponka.

[[underline]] In Kansas [[/underline]]

Pañka | wayádje | min'-gtci | bla'-dje |miñ-ké-dan | kú-ze
 | waiting | I only | read | I have been |xn
égu | Kan'-ze | wayádje | tce |na'-dje | kun'-bla | miñ-ke    
 | x |  I caring | yin | read | I want | I am. 
au'- When I read a Ponka word, I wish you to give (read) me the corresponding Kansas word. (Same, [[underline]] mutatis mutandis [[/underline]], in Osage):-
Pan'-gka wa-øa'-dse win-'qtsi bla-'dse miñ-kce'-dan
kun'-ze e'-ku Wa-ja'-je wa-¢a-'dse tse na'-dse kun'-bøa
miñ-kce au' (as spoken by the "Big Hill Osages")
[[six columns]]
om | Kansas | Osage |  |  |  
red - jí-de | jü-'dje | jü-'dse | te | tce | tse (buffalo)
gray  qu'-de| qu'-dje | qu'-dse | t'e| ts'e| ts'e (dead)
throut nu'de|du'-dje  |xtu'-dse | ke | kye | kce (the long u reclining ob.)