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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. [4] [5]
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed. (unabridged). New York: Random House. Siebert, Frank T. (1975). "Resurrecting Virginia Algonquian from the Dead: The Reconstituted and Historical Phonology of Powhatan". In Studies in Southeastern Indian Languages, ed. James M. Crawford, pp. 285–453. Athens: University of ...
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.
A Dakota-English Dictionary by Stephen Return Riggs is a historic resource for referencing dialect and historic documents. [24] The accuracy of the work is disputed, as Riggs left provisions in the English copy untranslated in the Dakota version and sometimes revised the meaning of Dakota words to fit a Eurocentric viewpoint. [25]
Wasi'chu is a loanword from the Sioux language (wašíču or waṡicu using different Lakota and Dakota language orthographies) [2] which means a non-Indigenous person, particularly a white person, often with a disparaging meaning.
He worked among the Dakota Sioux for the remainder of his life, producing a grammar and dictionary [2] and a translation of the New Testament [3] In his autobiography Mary and I, or Forty Years with the Sioux, Riggs describes his life. [4] In 1862, he served as interpreter at the trials of the Sioux Uprising. He died in Beloit, Wisconsin. [1]
This concept and phrase is expressed in many Yankton Sioux prayers, [2] as well as by ceremonial people in other Lakota communities. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The phrase translates in English as "all my relatives," "we are all related," or "all my relations."
The Kansa Sioux language was mostly spoken only in the plains region now known as the U.S. state of Kansas, and now because all of the descendants of Native Kansa speakers have died, Kansa is no longer natively spoken. Members of the tribe now use English, while some still understand certain Kansa phrases and words. [5]