mbb6090@u.cc.utah.edu (Maha Blanchard) writes:
>In article <26p78j$8cm@news.u.washington.edu> talltree@stein1.u.washington.edu
(Talltree) writes:
>>Does anyone know where I can find a Lakota/English dictionary,
>>and/or other Lakota language books?
Here's some information on Lakhota books.
- David Librik
librik@cs.Berkeley.edu
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~From: LOCKE::IN%"nn.lang@gnosys.svle.ma.us" 28-MAR-1991 20:44
Subj: Lakhota Instructional Materials
~Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 08:41:06 MST
~From: NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us
~Subject: Lakhota Instructional Materials
~Reply-to: nn.lang@gnosys.svle.ma.us
>From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
~Newsgroups: native.lang
In response to Jim Wilson's query, materials for learning Lakota:
A variety of books and tapes on the Lakhota dialect of Dakota are
available from the C.U. Lakhota Project at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, Colorado.
Beginning Lakhota I (337 pp.) $18 US
Beginning Lakhota II (331 pp.) $18 US
Vols I and II together $35 US
Elementary Bilingual Dictionary:
English-Lakhota, Lakhota-English (317 pp.) $12 US
Lakhota Wayawapi, Graded Readings (134 pp.) $10 US
Tapes to accompany Beg. Lakh. I
(6 tapes, c. 1 hr. each) $30 US
Note that tapes are for the previous edition
of the lessons and do not match the present
edition exactly. They are, however, thoroughly
usable.
Order from: C.U. Lakhota Project
Dept. of Linguistics
Campus Box 239
Univ. of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
Makes checks payable to "C.U. Lakhota Project."
Customer is billed after shipping for postage and handling
charges.
This information from SSILA Newsletter VIII.3:13a.
Disclosure: I am a part time employee of the Center for the
Study of the Native Languages of the Plains and Southwest, an
affiliate of the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of
Colorado. Conceivably, I may benefit indirectly from purchases
of C.U. Lakhota Project purchases.
Lakhota vs. Lakota: The Dakotan dialects contrast aspirated and
unaspirated stops (ph vs. p, th vs. t, ch vs c, kh vs. k),
whereas English does not. The spelling Lakhota, used in the
orthography of the CULP materials reflects the fact that the k in
Lakhota is aspirated. Lakota is the English spelling. Some
systems of Lakhota spelling that do not mark aspiration also
write Lakota.
Other materials:
The A. Ross tape Dakota Language mentioned in the 1-MAR-91
NativeNet contribution by Gary Trujillo is nice, but deals
with the Dakhota or Santee dialect (one of the d-dialects of
Dakotan, as opposed to Lakhota, the l-dialect).
The best published descriptive grammar of Lakhota:
Boas, Franz; Deloria, Ella. 1941. Dakota grammar. National
Academy of Sciences, Memoir 23, Pt. 2. Washington, DC: US
Government Printing Office. Reprinted 1979, Vermillion, SD:
The Dakota Press.
The best published dictionary of Lakhota:
Buechel, Eugene, compiler; Manhart, Paul, ed. 1970. A diction-
ary of the Teton Dakota Sioux language ... Lakota-English;
English-Lakota. Vermillion abd Pine Ridge, SD: Institute of
Indian Studies, University of South Dakota & Red Cloud Indian
School, Inc., of Holy Rosary Mission.
The English-Lakota section is an index to the Lakota-English
section, not a dictionary in its own right.
The orthography of this dictionary does not mark aspiration
consistently, but it is often possible to deduce its presence
even when it is not marked, by cross comparing entries,
noting part of speech, etc.
There are some systematic differences in orthography between
the headwords of the Lakota-English section and other contexts.
Traditional Texts:
Deloria, Ella C. 1932. Dakota texts. Publications of the
American Ethnological Society, No. 14. New York,: G.E.
Stechert. Reprinted 1974, New York: AMS Press.
In the orthography of Boas & Deloria.
Bibliography:
Reuse, Willem J. de. 1987. One hundred years of Lakota
linguistics (1887-1987). Kansas Working Papers in
Linguistics 12:13-42.
Reuse, Willem J. de. 1990. A supplementary bibliography of
Lakota language and linguistics (1887-1990). Kansas Working
Papers in Linguistics 15.2:146-165.
KWPL is available from the Linguistics Graduate Student Asso-
ciation at the Unversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Willem de Reuse's e-mail address: wdereuse@ccit.arizona.edu