Sioux language

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 14th edition:	DHG,LKT
ISO 639-3:	either: dak – Dakota lkt – Lakota
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Sioux is a Siouan language.

Regional variation

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

1. Santee (a.k.a. Dakota)
   • Santee
   • Sisseton
2. Yankton (a.k.a. Yankton-Yanktonai, Dakota)
   • Yankton
   • Yanktonai
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 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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