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... and giving their translation. Proper punctuation has to be applied. Sentences start with a capital letter and end with either a period, a question mark or an exclamation mark. A maximum of two sentences per topic is allowed. After corrections and comments have been made by the correcting members, ...

... on the English side. I'm using Chrome Version 25 on OS X - 10.7.5. Also, in the dictionary, when searching for a Lakota word, should an accent mark be placed over a vowel if I type a single quote immediately after the vowel? I've tried this in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox and it isn't working ...

... The book by Albert White Hat (Reading & Writing the Lakota language) uses a consistent and reliable orthography (except that it does not mark word stress, an important feature of Lakota pronunciation). Anyone who learns the spelling used in the New Lakota Dictionary will have no problem ...

... of the local variants. As you know the New Lakota Dictionary (NLD) is the first Lakota dictionary ever that records local variants and marks their local usage (please read page 18, third paragraph). This was not previously done in any material and all earlier dictionaries were based ...

From New Lakota Dictionary (NLD) page 696 1st edn, page 750 2nd edn: Stress is an important feature of Lakota sound system. Stress is marked with acute accent diacritics above vowels: á , áŋ , é , í , íŋ , ó , ú , úŋ . Stress often impacts the meaning of words. Consider the following pairs ...

... Lakota letteres on the keyboard. :lol: I noticed that I can type the letters, then the ' and keep typing and the keyboard moves the diacritical mark on top of the letter! KEWL! 8-) é á í ó ú 8-)

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