Lakota Language Forum - Lakȟól’iya Owáakhiye Othí

... language learners of Lakota should be mainly concerned with and aware of when learning the language. 2) Although the form or construction sounds grammatically correct to native speakers, they feel like it is not something they themselves would use. We say that such expression is not idiomatic, ...

... its structure. A detailed inspection of the Lakota in the 5th and 6th grade textbooks revealed that approximately 75% of all sentences are either grammatically incorrect or un-idiomatic (i.e. not written the way native speakers would say them). Most of the errors reveal that the sentences were ...

... to assist serious students with their study of the Lakota language. We would like to emphasize that reliable translation of English sentences into grammatically correct and idiomatic Lakota is an advanced skill requiring a high proficiency level. Most of our fluent members, however, can’t be involved ...