Learner’s Dictionary Hocąk-English English-Hocąk

Second Edition/Iren Hartmann, Nils Jahn, Juliane Lindenlaub comp.; Johannes Helmbrecht, Christian Lehmann ed. - Erfurt: University of Erfurt, 2006. 122 p.It is a pleasure for us to present the second edition of the Learner’s Dictionary Hocąk–English/English–Hocąk to the Hocąk nation. This second edition is a thoroughly revised version of the first edition. Typographical and linguistic errors were eliminated for this edition and the first part – the introduction into the structure and use of this dictionary – was slightly extended. One major change is the incorporation of the Hocąk example sentences in the English–Hocąk part. The other one is the incorporation of alternative forms of the lexical entries in the dictionary. Often, we obtained one word in slightly different phonological forms from the Hocąk consultants, or we received different spellings of the same word from the written sources we used for this dictionary. In order to enable the language learners to find a word even if it is spelled or orally given in an alternative way, we incorporated cross-references from these alternative forms to the more standard form of the same word. We hope that this improved edition contributes even better to the Hocąk nation’s efforts to revitalize their ancestors’ language.