| Sioux Dakota, Lakota | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | United States, Canada | |
| Region: | Northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, northeastern Montana, Canada | |
| Total speakers: | 26,300 | |
| Language family: | Siouan-Catawban Siouan Mississippi Valley Dakotan Sioux | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | dak — Dakota sio — Siouan (collective) | |
| ISO 639-3: | either: dak – Dakota lkt – Lakota | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers North Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern and Western regions of the United States of America. South Dakota ( is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Montana ( is a state in the Western United States. One-third of the state in the western part contains numerous mountain ranges (approximately 77 named of the northern Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family Siouan-Catawban (also Catawban-Siouan, Siouan) is a Language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains The Siouan (aka Siouan proper, Western Siouan) languages are a Native American Language family of North America, and the ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages Sioux is a Siouan language. Regional variation Sioux has 3 major regional varieties with various sub- Lects The Siouan (aka Siouan proper, Western Siouan) languages are a Native American Language family of North America, and the ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages Sioux is a Siouan language. Regional variation Sioux has 3 major regional varieties with various sub- Lects Lakota (also Lakhota, Teton, Teton Sioux) is the largest of the three languages of the Sioux, of the Siouan family In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Sioux is a Siouan language. The Siouan (aka Siouan proper, Western Siouan) languages are a Native American Language family of North America, and the
Regional variation
Sioux has 3 major regional varieties, with various sub-lects:
- Santee (a. k. a. Dakota)
- Santee
- Sisseton
- Yankton (a. k. a. Yankton-Yanktonai, Dakota)
- Yankton
- Yanktonai
- Lakota (a. Lakota (also Lakhota, Teton, Teton Sioux) is the largest of the three languages of the Sioux, of the Siouan family k. a. Lakhota, Teton, Teton Sioux)
- Northern Lakota
- Southern Lakota
Dakotan languages/varieties are often classified according to their reflexes of Proto-Siouan *R (some r-like sound, but distinct from Proto-Siouan *r). Rhotic consonants, or "R"-like sounds are non-lateral Liquid consonants This class of sounds is difficult to characterise phonetically though most of them share Santee and Yankton-Yanktonai are both d varieties (showing a reflex of d for *R, and thus pronouncing their autonym as dakhóta), while Lakota is a l variety (pronouncing their autonym Lakhóta).
External links
- Dakota/Lakota Sioux Language
- Our Languages: Dakota, Nakota, Lakota (Saskatchewan Indian Cultural Centre)
Bibliography
- DeMallie, Raymond J. (2001). Sioux until 1850. In R. J. DeMallie (Ed. ), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 2, pp. 718-760). W. C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed. ). Washington, D. C. : Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-050400-7.
- Parks, Douglas R. ; & Rankin, Robert L. (2001). The Siouan languages. In Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 1, pp. 94-114). Washington, D. C. : Smithsonian Institution.
- de Reuse, Willem J. (1987). One hundred years of Lakota linguistics (1887-1987). Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 12, 13-42. (Online version: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/509).
- de Reuse, Willem J. (1990). A supplementary bibliography of Lakota languages and linguistics (1887-1990). Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 15 (2), 146-165. (Studies in Native American languages 6). (Online version: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/441).
- Rood, David S. ; & Taylor, Allan R. (1996). Sketch of Lakhota, a Siouan language. In Handbook of North American Indians: Languages (Vol. 17, pp. 440-482). Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution.
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