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A Christmas gift of reading and discussion: Niglíču…She Comes Out Alive…A Story of Wounded Knee has been posted as a New Book for over a year now. More than 32,000 people have viewed the post. Close to 18,000 people have viewed my co- author’s ...

... post. I made it exclusively about the plural of words ending in -ou . I didn't want to go into the specifics of French pluralization because this discussion is not relevant to this forum. But of course, there are variations of pluralization with words ending in -au and -eu , which are very few ...

... (waȟpéyutapi), genou (čhaŋkpé), hibou (hiŋháŋ), joujou (wíškate) and pou (héya)! I have no problem with that. But although I know this is not a discussion about French, and you probably don't care about knowing details of my language, it just bothers me to know that each time someone is looking ...

... (waȟpéyutapi), genou (čhaŋkpé), hibou (hiŋháŋ), joujou (wíškate) and pou (héya)! I have no problem with that. But although I know this is not a discussion about French, and you probably don't care about knowing details of my language, it just bothers me to know that each time someone is looking ...

... time. Only time will show which of these expressions become part of the language and which will fall into disuse. A question that rises from this discussion is this: Are some of these English-influenced expressions less or more desirable than other ones? One possible answer to that is that English-influenced ...

... and did not bother about the recent posts in the forum and after a while closed the browser. When I logged in again in the evening to join the discussion I noticed that I missed the recent posts from before my using the dictionary for of course only those posts made since my last log-in were ...

... skills. We feel that the Lakota Language Forum has brought a breath of fresh air to learning Lakota on the internet. In the past, we have seen discussion groups and mailing lists that discussed only the most rudimentary basics of the language, who got entangled in disputes over orthographies, ...

... comment on something and your comment won’t be completely accurate or comprehensive. But that is OK because at least it helps to encourage the discussion and search for the appropriate usage reference in NLD. The number of members with advanced proficiency who can give authoritative language ...

... blog: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/why-save-dying-languages/?apage=2#comments I invite forum members to contribute commentary to this discussion in the New York Times blog . There are many very good reasons to save Lakota and other endangered languages, and it would be very useful ...

... the case with local variants, the spelling based on formal speech is another thing that many languages have in common. I would like to close this discussion by sharing something from the Lakȟól’iyapi Summer Institute at the Sitting Bull College this past summer. One of the groups of teachers was ...

... that others can read, analyze and translate. The responsibility of the text’s moderator is to monitor the posts, suggest corrections and moderate discussion leading towards the completed transcription and translation of each sentence. Members' comments and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. ...

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