Lakota Language Forum - Lakȟól’iya Owáakhiye Othí

... not at all possible with the printed version. Both features together allow you to counter-check all the different translations for one word very fast - this would take much more time with the paper version - and much more post-it notes. :D This counter-checking is necessary for getting the clear ...

... version that has many advantages compared to the hard copy. The online version of NLD has the following features: • Looking up words is much faster than in the hard copy. • The Lakota-English and English-Lakota sections are interlinked (i.e. look up the English word, then click on the relevant ...

... iglúwiŋyeya is commonly pronounced iglúwiŋyæŋ . The word ikȟóyaka is informally pronounced ikȟwáka or okȟáyaka by some people. The NLD provides fast speech variants for a large percentage of the words, and the grammar section gives a very detailed description on how the informal speech style ...

Wow, that was fast!
My heartfelt thanks to all who have launched these system languages that extremely fast!
Really great!

... erroneously claim that there is a fourth nasal vowel, oŋ . There is no such vowel in Lakota language. A sound similar to oŋ occurs only in fast speech when it replaces the suffix –pi (see p. 771, 0).

... h is used. For the sake of orthography, aspirated stops can be approximated in the following way: kh sounds like k_h in back_home when pronounced fast ph sounds like p_h in steep_hill when pronounced fast th sounds like t_h in sit_here when pronounced fast As already explained, these stops are ...