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Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi [laˈkˣɔtɪjapɪ]), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and is one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language.
The 'Battiste Good winter count' records Lakota history to 900 CE when White Buffalo Calf Woman gave the Lakota people the White Buffalo Calf Pipe. [ 7 ] Siouan language speakers may have originated in the lower Mississippi River region and then migrated to or originated in the Ohio Valley .
As the number of first-language Lakota speaker dwindled, Taken Alive began working with Czech linguist Jan Ullrich [] in 2005. [3] Ulrich and Wilhelm Meya formed the Lakota Language Consortium (LLC), originally focusing on Lakota, but later expanding to include other vulnerable and endangered Native American languages, including Ojibwe, Crow, and Gwichʼin. [4]
Globally, there are currently only 2,000 Lakota language speakers, and fewer than 1,000 at Pine Ridge. [118] The age of the average Lakota speaker is 60, making it a "critically endangered" language. [119] [120] In the fall of 2012, a new program was founded to combat the loss of the language and create a young generation of fluent Lakota speakers.
The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation. It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota .
The Eastern and Western Dakota are two of the three groupings belonging to the Sioux nation (also called Dakota in a broad sense), the third being the Lakota (Thítȟuŋwaŋ or Teton). The three groupings speak dialects that are still relatively mutually intelligible. This is referred to as a common language, Dakota-Lakota, or Sioux. [4]
Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken Indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit languages, and Ojibwe.
Sitting Crow/Kangi Iyotanke (Kah-Re-Eo-Tah-Ke), a Sihásapa Lakota man from Standing Rock The Sihásapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the Lakota people , Titonwan, or Teton. Sihásapa is the Lakota word for "Blackfoot", whereas Siksiká has the same meaning in the Nitsitapi language , and, together with the Kainah and the Piikani forms ...