New Lakota Dictionary to Transform Language (fwd link)

Wed Jul 16 16:31:18 UTC 2008

Tue Jul 15 13:49:19 2008 Pacific Time

New Lakota Dictionary to Transform Language

       RAPID CITY, S.D., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Lakota Language
Consortium announces the publication of the New Lakota Dictionary. This highly
anticipated reference text is expected to be one of the most important works
ever published in the language. It goes on sale Friday, July 18, through the
Lakota Language Consortium.

       The 1,112-page volume is the most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary
to emerge in the last 75 years and is designed to serve as a foundation for
modern Lakota and Dakota in the 21st century. The dictionary is the product of
25 years of linguistic work with over 300 fluent speakers from across all the
dialect areas. It represents the Lakota language and its dialects with complete
historical and contemporary accuracy from the Sioux reservations of Standing
Rock, Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, as well as the eastern Yankton and
Santee-Sisseton communities.

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