Sioux language

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Sioux
Dakota, Lakota
Spoken in: United States, Canada 
Region: Northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, northeastern Montana, Canada
Total speakers: 26,300 (6,495 in Canada) [1]
Language family: Siouan-Catawban
 Siouan
  Mississippi Valley
   Dakotan
    Sioux
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: dak — Dakota
sio — Siouan (collective) 
Ethnologue 14th edition: DHG,LKT
ISO 639-3: either:
dak – Dakota
lkt – Lakota
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Sioux is a Siouan language.

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[edit] Regional variation

Sioux has 3 major regional varieties, with various sub-lects:

  1. Santee (a.k.a. Dakota)
  2. Yankton (a.k.a. Yankton-Yanktonai, Dakota)
  3. Lakota (a.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). 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).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Statistics Canada: 2006 Census

[edit] External links

[edit] 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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