new Lakota book

[ROOD DAVID S]

I have the book (Dr. Netzel sent me a copy after we met briefly in
Heidelberg a few months ago).  It has lots of interesting information in
it; I haven't looked at it very carefully yet, however.  It's main problem
is that the orthography is totally idiosyncratic, a peculiar mixture of
Buechel and White Hat -- the eternal problem of aspiration/lack of
aspiration, of course.  A quick glance shows that aspirated stops are
usually marked with a hacek, unaspirated ones with a dot, and predictable
ones (in clusters or in the plural pi) are unmarked, but I haven't really
tried to figure it out.  Dr. Netzel said she was under severe pressure
from the publisher to do it this way, and no linguist will have any
trouble figuring it out -- but of course it's really regrettable.  Jan
Ullrich tried to get her to change before the book was printed, and she
mentions that under the name of the Lakota Language Consortium
standardization attempts -- but continues to ignore it.
	Dr. Netzel did a lot of her own field work for this, so there is
information that we haven't seen elsewhere.  And, as the list contributors
have said already, the series is quite reputable and has a lot more than
the average tourist phrase book.


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, [windows-1252] "Alfred W. Tüting" wrote:

> > > The Lakota booklet seems to be pretty new, since this language isn't
> to be found in the pull-down menue's language list - one has to search
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>  > Alfred:  I think you have to look at the pull-down menu under
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> Willem, you're absolutely correct :) it's listed under 'Sioux Lakota'
> (but I did find it anyway). Do you possess it already? Maybe, I'll order
> it, be it only to learn how the booklet is made up for its limited purpose.
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