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-0:00:42.640,0:00:48.800 -lakotiappi the lakota language - -0:00:45.760,0:00:52.160 -the lakota dakota dialect area - -0:00:48.800,0:00:55.600 -for those of you who you don't know - -0:00:52.160,0:00:56.840 -the lakota dakota people are also known - -0:00:55.600,0:00:59.760 -as the sioux - -0:00:56.840,0:01:03.120 -and the tribes cover an - -0:00:59.760,0:01:05.199 -area of roughly 10 us states and parts - -0:01:03.120,0:01:08.479 -of canada and so this language is - -0:01:05.199,0:01:10.880 -spoken over a wide range of of - -0:01:08.479,0:01:10.880 -area - -0:01:11.520,0:01:16.640 -however the us government policy - -0:01:14.400,0:01:18.640 -directly tried to silence this language - -0:01:16.640,0:01:20.960 -my father was taken to a boarding school - -0:01:18.640,0:01:23.280 -and was punished for speaking - -0:01:20.960,0:01:25.119 -his native language and so he didn't - -0:01:23.280,0:01:28.880 -teach it to his children - -0:01:25.119,0:01:29.600 -several generations of lakota and dakota - -0:01:28.880,0:01:31.600 -people - -0:01:29.600,0:01:32.640 -and other tribes all over the country - -0:01:31.600,0:01:34.560 -lost - -0:01:32.640,0:01:38.320 -lost their first language their native - -0:01:34.560,0:01:41.040 -language so today only around 2000 - -0:01:38.320,0:01:43.119 -first first language native speakers are - -0:01:41.040,0:01:44.960 -speaking lakota - -0:01:43.119,0:01:47.600 -however there's language recovery - -0:01:44.960,0:01:49.759 -projects that are empowering - -0:01:47.600,0:01:51.720 -second language learners like myself to - -0:01:49.759,0:01:54.479 -teach it to the new generation of - -0:01:51.720,0:01:57.119 -children um - -0:01:54.479,0:01:58.000 -which brings me to my story um I grew up - -0:01:57.119,0:02:00.880 -without knowing - -0:01:58.000,0:02:01.520 -my heritage um I didn't know who my - -0:02:00.880,0:02:04.719 -father was - -0:02:01.520,0:02:07.119 -both my parents were white um - -0:02:04.719,0:02:08.720 -I discovered my biological family in - -0:02:07.119,0:02:12.160 -around 2015 - -0:02:08.720,0:02:13.840 -was kind of a shock to me up until that - -0:02:12.160,0:02:15.520 -point probably the only time I'd heard - -0:02:13.840,0:02:18.720 -the lakota language was in - -0:02:15.520,0:02:20.720 -the movie dances with wolves possibly - -0:02:18.720,0:02:24.160 -some other times - -0:02:20.720,0:02:27.200 -around nebraska I'd heard it um but - -0:02:24.160,0:02:28.319 -even myself growing up you know pretty - -0:02:27.200,0:02:30.560 -close to - -0:02:28.319,0:02:32.239 -to lakota people and other native - -0:02:30.560,0:02:34.560 -american people - -0:02:32.239,0:02:36.640 -american indian people I kind of thought - -0:02:34.560,0:02:39.760 -it was just dead I thought the language - -0:02:36.640,0:02:42.000 -was not alive anymore um - -0:02:39.760,0:02:43.920 -but in 2016 my daughter began her - -0:02:42.000,0:02:46.720 -journey into this world and I - -0:02:43.920,0:02:48.239 -I was doing a lot of searching to find - -0:02:46.720,0:02:50.560 -out like what could I do - -0:02:48.239,0:02:51.920 -you know not knowing my family not - -0:02:50.560,0:02:54.080 -knowing my culture - -0:02:51.920,0:02:55.280 -what could I do to try to bring that - -0:02:54.080,0:02:58.640 -into our life - -0:02:55.280,0:03:00.720 -um and so I found out about these - -0:02:58.640,0:03:02.720 -lakota classes that were happening I - -0:03:00.720,0:03:04.560 -went up to standing rock - -0:03:02.720,0:03:06.640 -in north dakota and attended the lakota - -0:03:04.560,0:03:08.480 -summer institute for three weeks - -0:03:06.640,0:03:09.680 -and began my journey to learn the - -0:03:08.480,0:03:13.120 -language so I can - -0:03:09.680,0:03:16.400 -try to pass it on so - -0:03:13.120,0:03:16.400 -this brings us to Emacs - -0:03:16.560,0:03:20.959 -I could talk a lot more about my story - -0:03:19.200,0:03:24.640 -I'm sure there's a lot to say - -0:03:20.959,0:03:26.319 -but we're here to talk about Emacs um - -0:03:24.640,0:03:29.040 -I was already a free software user at - -0:03:26.319,0:03:31.440 -the time and at the lakota language - -0:03:29.040,0:03:33.280 -uh institute they they were they're - -0:03:31.440,0:03:34.879 -giving us software there's a dictionary - -0:03:33.280,0:03:37.360 -you could get on android - -0:03:34.879,0:03:38.560 -um there was a keyboard for android that - -0:03:37.360,0:03:41.760 -you could type with - -0:03:38.560,0:03:44.959 -they had keyboard input methods for mac - -0:03:41.760,0:03:46.720 -and windows but I'm a linux user free - -0:03:44.959,0:03:49.280 -software user - -0:03:46.720,0:03:49.760 -so I didn't have access to those things - -0:03:49.280,0:03:53.120 -as - -0:03:49.760,0:03:55.280 -as easily as I could and I do a lot of - -0:03:53.120,0:03:57.280 -my thinking and note taking in Emacs and - -0:03:55.280,0:04:01.200 -in org mode - -0:03:57.280,0:04:04.640 -and so being able to to write this - -0:04:01.200,0:04:07.680 -to to um to write things down to type - -0:04:04.640,0:04:08.720 -on my own computer uh was was pretty - -0:04:07.680,0:04:11.360 -important to me - -0:04:08.720,0:04:12.799 -and I wasn't much of an emax hacker yet - -0:04:11.360,0:04:15.519 -at the time I had - -0:04:12.799,0:04:16.720 -barely done anything mostly just you - -0:04:15.519,0:04:20.479 -know hacked on my - -0:04:16.720,0:04:23.600 -config file but this was a real - -0:04:20.479,0:04:27.280 -chance for me to experience - -0:04:23.600,0:04:30.400 -the the benefits of free software first - -0:04:27.280,0:04:33.680 -hand and not just to benefit myself but - -0:04:30.400,0:04:33.680 -to potentially benefit - -0:04:34.080,0:04:38.800 -everyone anyone interested in learning - -0:04:36.080,0:04:38.800 -this language - -0:04:39.120,0:04:44.880 -so Emacs and - -0:04:42.880,0:04:47.520 -that free software philosophy really - -0:04:44.880,0:04:49.840 -empowered me so I began digging in - -0:04:47.520,0:04:51.520 -um I looked I began reading the the - -0:04:49.840,0:04:53.680 -manual more closely - -0:04:51.520,0:04:55.440 -as an american I'm I'm sad to say - -0:04:53.680,0:04:58.479 -there's not a lot of - -0:04:55.440,0:05:00.160 -other languages spoken or written where - -0:04:58.479,0:05:02.240 -I'm from - -0:05:00.160,0:05:04.720 -so it's not common that I that I have to - -0:05:02.240,0:05:07.600 -think about this with computers - -0:05:04.720,0:05:09.120 -I know international people you know - -0:05:07.600,0:05:11.280 -have had to come up with - -0:05:09.120,0:05:12.160 -with interesting ways to to enter their - -0:05:11.280,0:05:14.800 -text - -0:05:12.160,0:05:16.320 -and Emacs is probably a pioneer in that - -0:05:14.800,0:05:17.520 -I I'd like to know more about the - -0:05:16.320,0:05:19.840 -history of this but - -0:05:17.520,0:05:22.160 -there's a whole section in the manual on - -0:05:19.840,0:05:23.840 -international Emacs - -0:05:22.160,0:05:25.440 -and I began reading this and I was - -0:05:23.840,0:05:28.000 -talking about - -0:05:25.440,0:05:29.759 -different input methods and and how many - -0:05:28.000,0:05:31.680 -different languages were supported and - -0:05:29.759,0:05:33.680 -how you could enter the text and how it - -0:05:31.680,0:05:34.560 -supports the different characters and so - -0:05:33.680,0:05:36.639 -on - -0:05:34.560,0:05:38.880 -um I even noticed a few languages - -0:05:36.639,0:05:41.840 -support several input methods - -0:05:38.880,0:05:43.440 -that became important for me later on as - -0:05:41.840,0:05:45.280 -I was working on this - -0:05:43.440,0:05:46.720 -many many languages are already - -0:05:45.280,0:05:48.479 -supported so - -0:05:46.720,0:05:50.080 -those of you who haven't looked into - -0:05:48.479,0:05:52.639 -this yet if you press - -0:05:50.080,0:05:53.680 -control backslash it will open up a - -0:05:52.639,0:05:57.039 -selection menu - -0:05:53.680,0:05:59.120 -for you to to select um - -0:05:57.039,0:06:01.440 -your input method and you can there's - -0:05:59.120,0:06:03.120 -207 listed here - -0:06:01.440,0:06:04.639 -that's including the two that I've - -0:06:03.120,0:06:09.199 -contributed - -0:06:04.639,0:06:11.120 -um so 205 on on a vanilla Emacs - -0:06:09.199,0:06:13.840 -so that's a lot of languages supported - -0:06:11.120,0:06:17.440 -by emac Emacs but there's so many more - -0:06:13.840,0:06:19.280 -that could be um and since Emacs is free - -0:06:17.440,0:06:20.000 -software and it is what it is I knew - -0:06:19.280,0:06:22.639 -that defining - -0:06:20.000,0:06:23.039 -a new input method was surely possible - -0:06:22.639,0:06:25.440 -um - -0:06:23.039,0:06:27.120 -unfortunately the the manual didn't - -0:06:25.440,0:06:28.800 -describe it directly or at least I - -0:06:27.120,0:06:30.960 -didn't pick it up so - -0:06:28.800,0:06:32.319 -um you know the new emax hacker that I - -0:06:30.960,0:06:34.880 -was I - -0:06:32.319,0:06:37.360 -I timidly dove down into the source code - -0:06:34.880,0:06:40.479 -and discovered the quail package - -0:06:37.360,0:06:40.960 -um so back in the day apparently there - -0:06:40.479,0:06:44.240 -was - -0:06:40.960,0:06:44.240 -mule which is like the - -0:06:44.560,0:06:48.000 -multi I don't I don't know it stood for - -0:06:47.360,0:06:50.160 -something about - -0:06:48.000,0:06:51.759 -language environments and and it has - -0:06:50.160,0:06:54.960 -evolved - -0:06:51.759,0:06:58.000 -and at some point um some japanese - -0:06:54.960,0:06:59.039 -uh coders created an input method called - -0:06:58.000,0:07:03.599 -tamago - -0:06:59.039,0:07:06.720 -which means egg in japanese and uh - -0:07:03.599,0:07:08.800 -tamago evolved into quail and they - -0:07:06.720,0:07:10.720 -in the comments you can see they talk - -0:07:08.800,0:07:12.800 -about how the quail egg is eaten in - -0:07:10.720,0:07:15.280 -japan it's a smaller thing and - -0:07:12.800,0:07:16.960 -the quail mode is like a nicer version - -0:07:15.280,0:07:19.039 -of tamago I guess and - -0:07:16.960,0:07:22.639 -there's a pun saying they hoped it would - -0:07:19.039,0:07:26.240 -egg people on to create more input modes - -0:07:22.639,0:07:28.479 -and quail is quite nice I looked into it - -0:07:26.240,0:07:30.720 -and there's basically two things you use - -0:07:28.479,0:07:32.240 -quail defined package and quail define - -0:07:30.720,0:07:35.759 -rules - -0:07:32.240,0:07:35.759 -so quail defined package - -0:07:36.080,0:07:41.759 -you can see here is a function it's - -0:07:38.960,0:07:43.599 -probably a macro that takes a name - -0:07:41.759,0:07:44.879 -a language a title and some optional - -0:07:43.599,0:07:48.080 -stuff which - -0:07:44.879,0:07:48.080 -I didn't really have to deal with - -0:07:48.319,0:07:52.400 -define name is a new quail package for - -0:07:50.479,0:07:52.879 -input language title is a string to be - -0:07:52.400,0:07:54.400 -split - -0:07:52.879,0:07:56.800 -at the mode line to indicate this - -0:07:54.400,0:07:56.800 -package - -0:07:57.120,0:08:03.039 -so I began trying to do lakota input now - -0:08:00.879,0:08:04.240 -this is a whole thing on its own because - -0:08:03.039,0:08:07.680 -the lakota language - -0:08:04.240,0:08:10.800 -was never written um - -0:08:07.680,0:08:12.879 -pre-contact and post contact - -0:08:10.800,0:08:14.800 -like there's several attempts at writing - -0:08:12.879,0:08:16.960 -it and different orthographies - -0:08:14.800,0:08:19.199 -and there's drama around all of this - -0:08:16.960,0:08:19.199 -stuff - -0:08:19.360,0:08:24.160 -it's pretty common to have drama going - -0:08:21.120,0:08:26.560 -on in any american indian stuff - -0:08:24.160,0:08:28.479 -going on so as I was doing this I - -0:08:26.560,0:08:29.680 -started with the suggested lakota - -0:08:28.479,0:08:32.880 -orthography which - -0:08:29.680,0:08:35.680 -is actually called by its authors the - -0:08:32.880,0:08:36.959 -the standard lakota orthography but its - -0:08:35.680,0:08:40.880 -authors are - -0:08:36.959,0:08:43.039 -um are european - -0:08:40.880,0:08:45.040 -um the main author is a man named jan - -0:08:43.039,0:08:46.160 -ulrich and I appreciate all his work and - -0:08:45.040,0:08:49.360 -I'm grateful for - -0:08:46.160,0:08:51.040 -the materials he's made available but um - -0:08:49.360,0:08:54.160 -it's a little bit problematic because - -0:08:51.040,0:08:56.720 -it's not an orthography created by - -0:08:54.160,0:08:57.920 -our people by lakota people so there's - -0:08:56.720,0:09:00.080 -another one called the white hat - -0:08:57.920,0:09:01.839 -orthography which is created by albert - -0:09:00.080,0:09:04.480 -whitehat who's a teacher - -0:09:01.839,0:09:05.360 -um from the chichanguk tribe so I - -0:09:04.480,0:09:08.640 -created two - -0:09:05.360,0:09:10.720 -and thankfully emax lets me do that so - -0:09:08.640,0:09:11.680 -it's pretty simple quail defined package - -0:09:10.720,0:09:13.279 -I just - -0:09:11.680,0:09:15.360 -say the package I want and then all - -0:09:13.279,0:09:16.480 -these nils and t's for options I don't - -0:09:15.360,0:09:18.240 -actually know what they mean but it - -0:09:16.480,0:09:20.240 -works - -0:09:18.240,0:09:22.640 -I could look it up and then quail define - -0:09:20.240,0:09:23.600 -rules just defines mappings from ascii - -0:09:22.640,0:09:26.640 -keys to - -0:09:23.600,0:09:29.680 -the the text you want to put in so - -0:09:26.640,0:09:33.600 -for this one there's a nasal n and then - -0:09:29.680,0:09:36.640 -a dot and a macron like a wedge shape - -0:09:33.600,0:09:39.839 -for marking up the consonants - -0:09:36.640,0:09:41.760 -so that one's pretty easy and then the - -0:09:39.839,0:09:43.040 -suggested lakota orthography is a little - -0:09:41.760,0:09:45.600 -bit more difficult - -0:09:43.040,0:09:46.800 -but still pretty easy I just map a - -0:09:45.600,0:09:49.760 -sequence of keys - -0:09:46.800,0:09:51.760 -a followed by the apostrophe makes the - -0:09:49.760,0:09:53.519 -accented vowels so all of those - -0:09:51.760,0:09:55.839 -and then again we have the hot checks - -0:09:53.519,0:09:58.399 -for the guttural sounds of the language - -0:09:55.839,0:09:59.120 -and the nasal end so that's it basically - -0:09:58.399,0:10:02.480 -these two - -0:09:59.120,0:10:06.560 -definitions allow me to type - -0:10:02.480,0:10:09.279 -lakota language in Emacs um - -0:10:06.560,0:10:09.920 -and it's great it works great publishing - -0:10:09.279,0:10:11.760 -it - -0:10:09.920,0:10:13.839 -is another problematic thing I wanted to - -0:10:11.760,0:10:16.079 -use free software to do that - -0:10:13.839,0:10:17.600 -so the first thing I did was I I posted - -0:10:16.079,0:10:19.440 -on sourcehut - -0:10:17.600,0:10:20.959 -which is great it's a good alternative - -0:10:19.440,0:10:22.880 -for a git forge - -0:10:20.959,0:10:24.000 -and I got it published on melba so the - -0:10:22.880,0:10:25.760 -lakota input - -0:10:24.000,0:10:27.760 -package is available if you'd like to - -0:10:25.760,0:10:29.839 -try it out - -0:10:27.760,0:10:31.680 -and bandali one of our hosts for the - -0:10:29.839,0:10:33.200 -conference is helping me now - -0:10:31.680,0:10:35.279 -through the process of committing the - -0:10:33.200,0:10:37.120 -code to Emacs - -0:10:35.279,0:10:39.279 -because I would like to do that I would - -0:10:37.120,0:10:41.680 -like it to be available to everyone - -0:10:39.279,0:10:43.279 -through Emacs itself so that anyone who - -0:10:41.680,0:10:43.920 -wants to use it just has to download - -0:10:43.279,0:10:46.240 -Emacs - -0:10:43.920,0:10:47.120 -and there you go you can type lakota - -0:10:46.240,0:10:50.160 -language - -0:10:47.120,0:10:53.279 -so uh pila maya thank you - -0:10:50.160,0:10:55.920 -all for listening and - -0:10:53.279,0:10:58.320 -I hope to see you around in our Emacs - -0:10:55.920,0:11:04.720 -community - -0:10:58.320,0:11:04.720 -uh day - |