Lakota Language Consortium site & Jan Ullrich's Lakota site

[Koontz John E]

Repost from SSILA Bulletin 208.  I apologize for the repost, because many
members of the list will also be members of SSILA.  However, a substantial
number are not, and many of them would be specifically interested in this
article.   More information on SSILA at http://www.ssila.org.

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* Lakota Language Consortium site & Jan Ullrich's Lakota site
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"Many Voices, One Language" is the new website of the Lakota Language
Consortium, a group of educational institutions, communities and indi-
viduals committed to halting the loss of the Lakota language on the
northern plains.  Developed with technical assistance from the American
Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University, the LLC site
has pages devoted to language loss (showing the results of recent
alarming surveys), revitalization strategies, the structure of the LLC
initiative, and language materials development.  There are also links
to several other sites, including the Lakota Language Show that is
broadcast weekly on KILI-FM.  The URL is:

                    http://www.lakotalanguage.org

The language materials being developed by LLC (samples are shown of
a multimedia lesson and of a K-3 level textbook) draw on the expertise
of the Czech linguist, Jan Ullrich, who also maintains his own -- very
impressive -- Lakota/Dakota/Assiniboine site ("Lakhota Language"):

                      http://www.inext.cz/siouan

Ullrich's site offers a detailed on-line textbook of Lakota and a number
of text files, most with a word-by-word dictionary lookup and some with
paragraph-by-paragraph sound files.  Texts include samples from George
Bushotter's and Ella Deloria's collections, among others.