New Lakota Dictionary: Lakhotiyapi-English/English-Lakhotiyapi & Incorporating the Dakota Dialects of Santee-Sisseton Yankton-Yanktonai - Softcover

Lakota Language Consortium

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ISBN 10: 0976108291 ISBN 13: 9780976108290

Verlag: Lakota Language Consortium Inc, 2008

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This 23,000-word Second Edition of the NLD provides a reliable, accurate, and user-friendly reference text and serves as a central component of the revitalization movement. It is an indispensable resource for advanced language users as well as beginning students of the language and has many innovative features including: Over 40,000 example sentences, usage notes, and collocations; A modern layout that makes it easy to find words and their usage; 3,160 more entries than the first edition of the NLD; A standard orthography that adequately marks all meaningful sounds in the language; All verb entries include conjugation paradigms; Special symbols that mark the 3,000 most important words; Descriptions of word-stems and stem nests.The volume forms the foundation for Lakota and Dakota languages and provides the basis upon which students, teachers, and community members can move forward with confidence in restoring the living language.

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The New Lakota Dictionary is a breakthrough in contemporary Native American language studies...revolutionizes what we understand about the historical development of Lakota and Dakota dialects...clarifies many problems found in earlier lexical works...much needed and innovative. --William K. Powers, author of Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lakota Language Consortium Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0976108291
• ISBN 13: 9780976108290
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1100
• Herausgeber: Ullrich Jan F.