Lakota Language Forum - Lakȟól’iya Owáakhiye Othí

... Stones of this world can teach some language, true, but this is generally at the survival level. People can learn, through these methods, some basic words and phrases that will take them through specific situations. For example, one can learn to ask for specific foods when hungry, or tell someone ...

... web-font for default (unbolded) and italics font of the posts, and Hlahla for bold and bold-italics . The negative side of using web-font for the basic font is that the text appears with some delay, after images are shown. But the positive side is that users without Lakota fonts installed on their ...

... page next to the selected word. One of the most helpful features of the NLD-I is its ability to recognize conjugated words and link them to their basic form (this is called lemmatizer). You can see this functionality if you double-click on iblúškiŋ - you will be instantly shown the entry iyúškiŋ ...

... especially about how to tell whether an on-line class is any good. So I thought I would post some thoughts about that here. Below are some basic thoughts far from being entirely comprehensive, but enough to give some lead on the issue. There are several criteria that you should look at ...

... over the weekend will be to spend time exploring the dictionary and report back (the assignment is more structured than that, but that is the basic idea). The problem is that that their ability to explore the dictionary freely will be severely constrained by the restrictions that are in place. ...

... repeated with a Lakota text. It was a text written by a native speaker in the non-standardized spelling (sometimes referred to as “traditional”, basically spelling that does not mark all the meaningful sounds of the language). This Lakota text equaled the English text in length and complexity ...

... modifications of wording were made to the following sections of the policy: Paragraph 3, bullet 2 • Acceptance of the standard orthography is a basic requirement of membership, and forum members are expected to support the standard to the best of their abilities and do nothing to undermine it. ...

... in Lakota country. This writing system is defined and used in the New Lakota Dictionary. • Acceptance of the orthography (withing the forum) is a basic requirement of membership, and forum members are expected to support the standard to the best of their abilities and do nothing to undermine it. ...