By: Lakota Language Consortium, Jan Ullrich (Editor), Wilhelm Meya (Foreword by)

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This 23,000-word Second Edition of the NLD provides a reliable, accurate, and user-friendly reference text and serves as a central component of the revitalization movement. It is an indispensable resource for advanced language users as well as beginning students of the language and has many innovative features including: Over 40,000 example sentences, usage notes, and collocations; A modern layout that makes it easy to find words and their usage; 3,160 more entries than the first edition of the NLD; A standard orthography that adequately marks all meaningful sounds in the language; All verb entries include conjugation paradigms; Special symbols that mark the 3,000 most important words; Descriptions of word-stems and stem nests.The volume forms the foundation for Lakota and Dakota languages and provides the basis upon which students, teachers, and community members can move forward with confidence in restoring the living language.

The addition of the grammar usage section to the dictionary makes this resource even more invaluable. This resources is a must have for linguistics programs, libraries, as well as for larger public libraries and Native American culture museum libraries. Thank you for this resource. -- IPPY Judge "Independent Publishers Book Awards"

ISBN: 9780976108290
ISBN-10: 0976108291
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 1156
Published: 1st May 2008
Dimensions (cm): 26.416 x 20.32  x 5.08
Weight (kg): 1.837