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... Out Alive…A Story of Wounded Knee , which I co-authored with Oscar, I have been keeping track of the views each of my posts have received. The number of views come in cycles it seems and I like to think that at least somewhere, some people are talking about these posts, even if they are not ...

... I invited her to come and visit me and my family. She came several times and became fond of my wife and children. We returned the visit on a number of occasions, too, and my children would call her "Aunty Nina". Nina was the kind of person who is fun to be around. Over the years ...

... , the channel name is "ken05007". For anyone who wants listen to mp3 recordings instead of a YouTube video of a recording, there are a number of sites and browser extensions etc. that will help convert a YouTube video to a mp3 audio file. This is one that I've tried which seems to work ...

... member" (which by the way is decided by the forum moderators and admin monitoring your contributions, not automatically by a certain number of posts). Tókša! Jana

... copy and paste the field structure into your document. Here is a description of this individual fields: \v (this field will contain the Volume number, the field will occur only once per volume) \c (this field will contain chapter/article title, the field will occur only once per article) \p ...

... when I click the word, it searches random characters. Hello Sky, What browser and operating system are you using? I use Win XP, Firefox 19, but a number of people have reported a problem with Firefox. Google Chrome seems to work OK. There are also some problems with Androids - see Kostya's post ...

... while southern speakers use ptegléška . Such local variations should ideally be respected because in the end they make the language richer. The number of local variations is much smaller than what native Lakota speakers usually think. There are also differences in the speech of different generations, ...

I added the plural -pe word forms (70,000 ) for -pi forms, so overall number of the word forms in the NLDI database is: 301,809

The -pe forms are recognized in NLD-O too.
You can check the recognition:

winíčhašape wičhášape wašíčupe kȟápe thípe wačhípe wayáčhipe yathípe awíčhuŋkakiyutʼiŋzape

... or forum functionality in the form of public posts rather than as private messages to individual moderators. The moderators are involved with a number of tasks and due to the ever growing number of forum users we do not have the capacity to answer individual private messages. On the other hand, ...

... program fails to recognize this and instead gives false promises based on false assumptions. Children do not learn like adults I have heard a number of school administrators at reservation schools say that it would be great if there was a Lakota version of the Rosetta Stone program for their ...

... is based on the the second printed edition of the New Lakota Dictionary. The on-line version (NLD-O 2.1) is extended by 495 entries and a number of edits. We hope you will continue utilizing the NLD-O and all its additional tools for enhancing your Lakota proficiency. P.S.: If you want ...

... of the language through English. While giving an early impression of control, certainly to students but also to teachers, this practice can have a number of unintended consequences. First, students delay the moment of using Lakota as a language to communicate, since all communication actually passes ...

... The following website http://www.cobellsettlement.com/ provides the narrative of the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement in Lakota, Dakota, Crow and a number of other Native American languages. The Lakota narrative was created and recorded by LLC board member Ben Black Bear. The Sisseton-Dakota narrative ...

... I guess this is something that is only possible in an online version in the first place - in a printed dictionary this would multiply the number of pages and the weight several times... Well said Jana! :rose:

... I guess this is something that is only possible in an online version in the first place - in a printed dictionary this would multiply the number of pages and the weight several times... Better word recognition would be convinient. At the time being, the dictionary for instance does show ...

... most of the time during the class then nobody is learning. Let’s say there are 10 students in a 60 minute class. If you divide 60 minutes by the number of students you will see that every student spends only 6 minutes speaking. And if the teacher speaks half the time, the student speaking time ...

... in the "about yourself" field during registration. 2) access to NLD-O for your school staff and other people We can increase the number of look-up for non-registered visitors to 7. We hope this will be an acceptable solution.

... ask the forum members the following. When you give reference to NLD in your comments and discussions, refer to the entry word rather than the page number (or both if you choose). Many people now use preferably the convenient NLD-O (New Lakota Dictionary - Online) which has no page numbers so the ...

... learning the Lakota language, we are learning the culture and thought from the inside, rather than from the outside. We are also seeing a growing number of native speakers becoming part of the forum, learning the new writing system and sharing their knowledge with us by writing their own texts ...

... that we would like to ask of you: when you give reference to NLD in your comments and discussions, refer to the entry word rather than the page number (or both if you choose). The NLD-O has no page numbers so the entry word is the only reference that can be given. If your reference is to the ...

... points. Those are given by clicking on the "thumbs up" icon to the right of each post (then follow the steps: assign number of points, write a short comment, submit). The link to the topic is created automatically through this process. If you want to give a link to ...

... have classes and teachers, but we're all learning because people like Jan, Kevin, Paha are sharing their knowledge with us. It's great that the number of active members is growing but we can't continue to sit back and wait for them to respond to every single post, especially when such detailed ...

... down" icons (you won't see thumbs on your own posts, only others'.). Click on the "thumbs up", then from the drop-down, choose the number of points that you want to award, and type in a brief reason. Then submit the form. Mitch

... 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 feedback is small and they can't fulfill the needs of the growing number ...

Share your knowledge and become a helper We are glad to see that the number of registered users and active members is growing. The number of members with advanced proficiency, however, is not growing at the same pace which means that the advanced members eventually ...

... "Reputation". The term reputation might give some underlying negative connotation to the point system because when someone has a low number of points it makes it seems as if his/her reputation is bad, which doesn't necessarily have to be the case. So how about if we just give each ...

... and how many he/she gave is not displayed anywhere on the post (and in fact nowhere in the forum). In other words, this system shows the total number of points given to individual members, not the number of points given to individual posts. The latter is what Mitch requested, but it is not ...

... Is that correct, or is there a part of the reputation feature that I'm overlooking? That is correct. The Reputation MOD does not show the total number points give per a post. As the Reputation MOD is a php script added to the forum we have no control over what it does and does not do. All we ...

... so. A good post may get points from one or two forum members, but a really good post may get points from many more members. In other words, the number of people who give positive points for a post is also a message to the poster. The more people like it the better post. I am thinking that when ...

Thanks for your feedback, haŋkáši. 1. Is the system endless in the distribution of points or is there a final limit? The number of points is infinite, there is no limit. 2. Would points decrease again if you were inactive for a period of time and not giving feedback to others or sth ...

... ), cattle ( ptegléška vs. ptewániyaŋpi) , clothes ( hayápi vs. hayáke ). This makes it seem as if there are many variants, but in reality they number a few dozens of words. The LLC textbooks are also designed to balance the use of the local variants. The main characters in the textbook are ...

It seems that during the night of October 2 to October 3 something went wrong and the forum produced a number of private messages. We apologize for any inconvenience this might have created for any of our members.

We hope the system is working properly again.

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... - die wichtigsten Lakota-Verben im Singular und Plural ist beim SPIRIT STAR Verlag in Ratingen erschienen. These materials are problematic for a number of reasons. Most significantly, the authors lack the needed linguistic expertise to work with the Lakota language and at the same time no native ...

... moderators. Their decision is based primarily on the member’s participation in topics requiring use of the Lakota language, rather than on the number and frequency of posts. On achieving membership, it is important that the user balances his participation among the various sections of the forum, ...

... those who become active, hard working members ( Škíŋčiyapi ) or even helpers ( Wawókiyapi ). Some statistics on the evolution of membership and number of posts: Date Registered members Oígwapi Full members Ópȟawičhayapi Active members Škíŋčiyapi Helpers Wawókiyapi posts 12.5.2009 400 90 8 4000 ...

Level 2 textbook, page 4, listening activity number 4. Listen to the audio track and decide which vowel is missing in each word: http://lakotadictionary.org/phpBB3/download/quizzes/01-04.mp3 Question 1: čháp_ 'beaver' a e i o u Question 2: p_spíza ...

... that word. Primary stress occurs on the first or second syllable of words. Second syllable stress is slightly more frequent. There is a very small number of words stressed on the third syllable. In most cases there is only one stress in a word. Exceptions to this are compound words, which usually ...

... language issues and providing feedback for other students. Only with active members can the forum really live. We are very happy to see a good number of very advanced students who use written Lakota on a very good proficiency level. And we are equally glad to see many beginner students who ...

... go) is called lemma . Because English has very simple word morphology each lemma has but very few forms (most verbs have only four forms, a small number of irregular verbs have five forms, nouns have two forms). Lakota, on the other hand, is a highly inflectional language with complex morphology ...

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