English Lakota Dictionary

This dictionary of 12,000 entries aims to preserve Indian culture and at all points illustrate the use of words in examples, especially syntactic words, whose usage cannot be captured purely by giving an English equivalent. It provides depth as regards the usage of frequently occurring items and especially in the use of syntactic elements and usage in context.

List of contents

PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF MAPS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, THE SOUNDS OF LAKOTA, INTRODUCTION, MAPS, HISTORY OF THE LAKOTA LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE, ENGLISH-LAKOTA DICTIONARY, APPENDICES, REFERENCES

About the author

Bruce Ingham

Summary

This dictionary of 12,000 entries aims to preserve Indian culture and at all points illustrate the use of words in examples, especially syntactic words, whose usage cannot be captured purely by giving an English equivalent.

Additional text

'The English to Lakota dictionary is a major contribution' - John Koonz, Siouanist'The most comprehensive English-Lakota dictionary yet available...This dictionary is excellent: easy to use, highly informative, attractive and well-presented, and a landmark oin British Americanist research. No Siouanist should be without it.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Product details

• Authors: INGHAM, Bruce Ingham, Ingham Bruce
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2001
• EAN: 9780700713783
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1378-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries, Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, Bilingual & Multilingual Dictionaries, Iroquoian & Siouan languages, Iroquoian languages