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Re: Ishtalo grammar sketch

From:dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
Date:Monday, November 20, 2000, 15:50
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Keith Alasdair Mylchreest wrote: > > > It was "Dances with Wolves" in English too. Funny thing though, in the > > book the native Americans were Comanches, but in the film they all > > spoke Lakota (plains Sioux) - wakan tanka!. > > I think there would be a problem getting enough actors and extras > who spoke Comanche, whereas Lakota is no problem.
Indeed. There are less than 50 Comanche speakers now, all of them in advancing years. Dirk -- Dirk Elzinga dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu