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From: "Jan Ullrich" <jfu at centrum.cz>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:51 PM
Subject: RE: [Lexicog] Lakhota dictionary database


> Jimm GoodTracks  wrote:
>
> > Are you using the original Buechel Lakota dictionary or the more recent,
> > improved, comprehensive edition via Nebraska Univ Press, 2002?
> > Irregardless, what you are saying below is most interesting about
Buechel
> > using Riggs as a base.
> > Jimm
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>
> I digitized the Buechel dictionary quite some time before the more recent
> edition came out. However, the new edition is definitely not an
improvement
> by any means. I even think that more errors were produced.
> I am also comparing the data with Buechel's original manuscript (the
28,000
> paper slips) and this reveals that most of the errors go on behalf of the
> 1970 editor. Buechel himself did quite a lot of good work phonemicizing
> Riggs data. He didn't change or improve the definitions however; almost
all
> of them are identical with those in Riggs (of course with the exception of
a
> few thousands of entries that Buechel added).
> And most interestingly, in his manuscript Buechel used "h" for marking
> aspirated stops, i.e. the simplest and easiest way how to represent
> aspiration. The editor substituted it (inconsistently) with a complicated
> system of marking plain stops and velar aspiration stops (non-phonemic)
with
> unpractical diacritics. This then became so influential and it is the base
> for the current native orthographies.
>
> Jan
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