Algonquian dictionaries

[Margaret Ann Noodin]

Aanii / Hello -

Just to add a quick word on Algonquian dictionaries and language resources.  It is best when they can be digital and the search function allows searches by root verb.  Additionally, searches that allow users to isolate morphemes are nice.  I used both the Freelang Ojibwe http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/ojibwe.php the Ojibwe People's Dictionary http://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/ and find differences in both as well as a definite need to know the language to use them.  In an ideal world there would be many full context examples with every entry but that simply is not the case to date.  I often find myself searching my own site http://ojibwe.net/ and hard drive for use instances when debating which word to use in curriculum or creative endeavors.

Good luck with it!

Margaret Noodin
noodin at uwm.edu

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From: "Inge Genee" <inge.genee at ULETH.CA>
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Dia ’s Muire dhuit, a Chono(i?)r, 



Very interesting questions. I’m just getting ready to do something similar with the already existing Blackfoot dictionary, and am very interested in answers to these questions. Have no experience to offer yet, unfortunately. 



Inge 



From: ALGONQUIANA [mailto:ALGONQUIANA at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Conor Quinn 
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Dia dhaoibh, a chairde! 

We're just now starting up a three-year effort to bring the current digital manuscript (ca. 16-17K entries) of the Penobscot Dictionary into a print- and web-published form, and so I thought I might ask the many of you who are experienced in these matters just one question: based on what you know now, what would you have done differently? Be that in the structuring of the dictionary, its presentational form, its preface+introduction and appendix content, or anything else. (Advice on what you would not do would also be gratefully appreciated.) 

Good luck in all your own efforts (especially here as the fall semester comes thumpily upon us), and keep well. 

Slán, 
Conor M. Quinn