Lakota/Midterm Overview

Quick Facts

• Where it’s spoken: North and South Dakota
• Size of the community that uses it: approx. 5000
• Any prominent languages it might be related to: other varieties of Sioux, Dakota
• Orthography: Suggested Lakota Orthography (SLO)
• ISO: lkt

Challenges

• The orthography was inconsistent across and even within corpora, so we had trouble standardising our keyboard and developing a corpus for testing
• The agglutinative morphology of the language made grammar analysis difficult, and in building our morphological analyser we found it difficult to isolate parts of speech and matching inputs to outputs