Re: Ishtalo grammar sketch

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

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Dirk Elzinga
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