#kiowa language

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Just turned in my capstone paper! How we doing this fine, stressful friday?

[lillypadcrochet]

Not my usual thing but... oof.

🌼I'm part of an endangered language dictionary project for the Kiowa language at my university. Because it is so critically endangered, we are currently making a pilot dictionary from ~7 traditional stories.

🌼 For my capstone project, I though it would be easier to translate a whole story & do a full 3 line analysis than to write a paper (wrong!)

🌼 of course, the story I'm doing does not have line by line translation, but instead the full story in kiowa, then in English. And the only resources I have are one glossary and a grammar written in the 80's

🌼 let me tell you, trying to scour a glossary for every little word without being able to search its english translation is So. Damn. Hard. Ugh!