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Re: The word Sioux

Hello Nancy First, thank you for taking interest in this 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 ...
by GnaskaGleska1
August 17th, 2017, 12:33 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: The word Sioux
Replies: 4
Views: 61466

Re: The word Sioux

... This I won't contest, but as a French person, and retired French teacher at that, what is incorrect is that you'll read also the way the French pluralize a word is by adding -oux at the end of it. I don't know where this originated, but I can tell you this is wrong. To pluralize a noun in French ...
by NancyD
August 16th, 2017, 4:03 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: The word Sioux
Replies: 4
Views: 61466

The word Sioux

... This I won't contest, but as a French person, and retired French teacher at that, what is incorrect is that you'll read also the way the French pluralize a word is by adding -oux at the end of it. I don't know where this originated, but I can tell you this is wrong. To pluralize a noun in French ...
by GnaskaGleska1
January 16th, 2017, 3:22 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: The word Sioux
Replies: 4
Views: 61466

NLD-I extension

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
by Kostya
April 15th, 2012, 1:54 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: INSTANT DICTIONARY (NLD-I)
Replies: 28
Views: 462517

Re: INSTANT DICTIONARY (NLD-I)

... entries. Now it has 205,000 entries. But the work is not yet completed: still about 1000 verbs are missing (with all their conjugations), animated plural nouns and alienable nouns that take possessive prefix tȟa- are missing too, as well as some nouns taking ma- pronouns like wimáčhaša. I recommend ...
by NancyD
June 7th, 2011, 2:16 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: INSTANT DICTIONARY (NLD-I)
Replies: 28
Views: 462517

Re: INSTANT DICTIONARY (NLD-I)

... entries. Now it has 207,798 entries. But the work is not yet completed: still about 1000 verbs are missing (with all their conjugations), animated plural nouns and alienable nouns that take possessive prefix tȟa- are missing too, as well as some nouns taking ma- pronouns like wimáčhaša. I recommend ...
by Kostya
June 7th, 2011, 2:10 pm
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: INSTANT DICTIONARY (NLD-I)
Replies: 28
Views: 462517

REVIEW - Lakota textbooks by AISRI, Indiana University

... about Tȟuŋwíŋ’s and Iná’s?” This encourages code switching, as well as the manipulation of Lakota words using English morphology (by adding ’s for plural etc.) which has a detrimental impact on real fluency in Lakota. As we have said above, Lakota becomes another way of speaking English. Let us ...
by admin
April 11th, 2011, 11:16 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: REVIEW - Lakota textbooks by AISRI, Indiana University
Replies: 0
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Lakota textbooks by German and French authors

... Tamakoce, Das Land der Lakota, Lakota für Anfänger II (2003) Martin Krüger: Lakota Verbtabellen - 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 ...
by admin
September 24th, 2009, 9:46 am
 
Forum: Wótȟaŋiŋ na yaótȟaŋiŋpi - NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Topic: Lakota textbooks by German and French authors
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Views: 41211

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