It is intended to help modern-day Sauk to learn to write and speak their ancestral tongue.
In 2005, A Concise Dictionary of the Sauk Language was published using the Algonquianist Standard Roman Orthography.
[7] The use of Sauk was actively discouraged and frequently punished in boarding schools during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This is a problem because this is no longer as helpful for the majority of the Sac and Fox nation, as the official tribe language today is English.
[5] All four stops have at least two allophones each, one fortis and one lenis:[citation needed] Vowel length is distinctive in its function.
[vague] Reinschmidt presents four vowels, each with two allophones:[5] Pitch and tone are important when speaking Sauk, as there is a general rule of emphasizing the first or second syllable of phrases, and slowly fades away by the end of a word.
Because this can easily pose great difficulties to learners with little to no experience with highly synthetic languages,[8][9][5] the Sauk orthography has words written by identifying each syllable.