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A landmark window into the Dakota language, in a historically important dictionary.
This book presents a Dakota-English dictionary drawn from a long-running scholarly effort to document vocabulary, dialects, and publication history. It covers the Santee, Yankton, and other Dakota varieties, with notes on how the language was gathered, revised, and published over time. The work also reflects the broader project of cataloging Siouan languages and shows how orthography and notation evolved in concert with philological study.
Readers will encounter linguistic entries, details about editors and translators, and context about how this edition came to be through collaboration with institutions and scholars of the era. It is a window into 19th-century language documentation and the ongoing quest to preserve Dakota words and meanings.
- Dakota vocabulary linked to its dialects, across multiple Dakota communities.
- Notes on spelling, pronunciation, and changes in notation used by linguists of the period.
- Editorial history, contributors, and the publication path that brought the dictionary to light.
- Context within Smithsonian and scholarly efforts to record North American languages.
Ideal for readers of linguistic history, historical dictionaries, and Dakota language studies, or anyone exploring the legacy of 19th-century language documentation.
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