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Title: A disgrace
Review: It is really surprising that anyone would buy this dictionary, now that the New Lakota Dictionary exists. Many years ago I was interested in Lakota, read through this dictionary and found the orthography so confusing I did not even try to learn it seriously. It cannot be blamed on the author Buechel, who made an important contribution to the description of Lakota during the first half of the twentieth century. The editor, Manhart, is really responsible for the sorry state of this dictionary. Not only is the orthography confusing and illegible, many words are wrongly transcribed and were never rechecked with native speakers. Whatever your interest in the Lakota language may be, do not buy this dictionary !
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