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Revision as of 16:43, 16 March 2022
Contents
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