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Hello, Over the years I've collected various Lakota language resources with the intent of learning, and I'm interested in how you would compare yours to those of Eugene Buechel (Dictionary/Grammar book) and Albert White Hat (Reading & Writing the Lakota language). I also have the 2 book ...

... helpful feature, especailly as the English side of the page does not disappear while the Lakota half shows the search results. So I am able to compare various solutions. And still it is helpful to have the good old hardcopy at hand. What I do nor understand is: if I open NLD-O fron the link ...

... begin with a “pure” vowel and end with a glide ( y or w ). This English glide is usually written with the midvowels /e/ and /o/ but not otherwise. Compare the following: Lakota English sí 'foot' see (si + y-glide) sú 'seed' sue (su w-glide) blé 'lake' play ...

Lakota s sounds like the English s in 'so' Lakota š sounds like the English sh in 'shop' These two sounds often contrast meaning, compare: sí foot ší to ask somebody to do something Level 2 textook, page 20: http://lakotadictionary.org/phpBB3/download/quizzes/02-05.mp3 Listen to the audio ...

... stops as well, but they are much less frequent that un-aspirated stops. In any given Lakota text they constitute only about 7% of all stop sounds (compare with 80% for plain stops). When Lakota stops are aspirated the aspiration has to be marked. For this the letter h is used. For the sake of orthography, ...

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Standard Orthography - a question

Re: New Lakota Dictionary Online (NLD-O)

2. Oral vowels

6. Lakota s and š

10. Lakota kh, ph, th (aspirated stops)