New Lakota Dictionary (NLD)

LLC Software

About this app

The New Lakota Dictionary (NLD) Mobile App is the best way to look up Lakota words, hear pronunciation, and view thousands of example sentences while on the go. It’s the ultimate electronic Lakota learning and reference tool.

• Male and female voices for audio
• Consistent phonemic spelling – Standard Lakota Orthography
• Superior cross-referencing capabilities
• Faster and more responsive than online versions
• Works offline, without active data connection
• Inflection charts show extensive verb forms
• Copy/Paste by word or line
• Save favorites lists and navigate search history
• Leave comments to improve future versions
• Built in keyboard for typing special characters
• Built-In lemmatizer searches for conjugated verbs and word forms
• Over 400 native speakers involved in its development and review
• Accurate and reliable
• Fun to use and explore
• An excellent self-study tool

"The lemmatizer is one of the biggest advantages of the app when compared to the printed version of the NLD. Lakota is a highly agglutinating language. Affixes are added to words all the time, so unless you know the stem of the word with affixes, you won’t be able to find it in the dictionary. The app does that for you. If you type in e.g. waŋwíčhablake the app will show you the entry waŋyáŋkA."

Ratings and reviews

I'm using a Samsung S23 Ultra and it works without fail - even offline. Maybe the bugs are due to device incompatability? I'm in awe of this lovely Lakota language and so incredibly grateful to have access to an app like this with clear audio and so many careful descriptions with terms & their subterms♡ I'm sure it was hard work, but the language "world" is all the better because of it. Thank you soo much♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎

I am so excited with this app! I love that is has pronunciation recordings. I just found out it cross-reference the Lakota words used in the definition examples too, making it very easy to learn to say whole phrases as well, with a "favorites" tab so I can practice the same words or phrases again and again. Amazing!!!

The app seems to be working now. Although deleting past search words works somewhat differantly than it did before the update l guess it's something I can learn to live with. I've had this app for a long time and loved it before the update. The problems I've experianced with the transision to the updated version is what's keeping me from giving a higher rating. Thanks to LLC for working to fix these issues.

What's new

Bugfixes: Example tap, Lakota Definitions and Abbreviations Settings, Dark Mode