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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 + |