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* The orthography was inconsistent across and even within corpora, so we had trouble standardising our keyboard and developing a corpus for testing
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* 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

Revision as of 16:43, 16 March 2022

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

Orthography

Morphology

Phonological / Orthographic

Evaluation

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