We are happy to announce that after years of work we have finally launched an online lemmatizer for the Lakota language. This tool enables instant look-up of words in texts in the New Lakota Dictionary’s online home at www.lakotadictionary.org/forums, and supports a spellchecker.
The site also has a new version of the Lakota-orthography keyboard for beta-testing the NLD’s search and translation chops.
Since Lakota is an agglutinating language (meaning it combines words and parts of words to create new words), LLC had to develop a unique computer algorithm to handle the potential combinations, which is the lemmatizer.
It’s free to register to use the online NLD. The Lakota Language Learning Community is closing in on 2,700 members worldwide.
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