Sioux language

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
Language family:	Siouan-Catawban Siouan Mississippi Valley Dakotan Sioux
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`dak` — Dakota `sio` — Siouan (collective)
Ethnologue 14^th 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.

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.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 dak^hóta), while Lakota is a l variety (pronouncing their autonym Lak^hóta).

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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