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Dakota has two major dialects with two sub-dialects each: Eastern Dakota (a.k.a. Santee-Sisseton or Dakhóta) Santee (Isáŋathi: Bdewákhaŋthuŋ, [4] Waȟpékhute, Waȟpéthuŋ) Sisseton ; Western Dakota (a.k.a. Yankton-Yanktonai or Dakȟóta/Dakhóta, and erroneously classified, for a very long time, as "Nakota" [5]) Yankton (Iháŋktȟuŋ)
Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota is a non-fiction book on Dakota history in Minnesota which focuses on the Dakota connection to location and language. The book is written by Dakota historian and professor Gwen Westerman ( Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate ) and Bruce M. White , with a foreword by Glenn Wasicuna ( Sioux Valley Dakota Nation ).
The Osage script is a new script promulgated in 2006 and revised 2012–2014 for the Osage language.Because Latin orthographies were subject to interference from English conventions among Osage students who were more familiar with English than with Osage, in 2006 the director of the Osage Language Program, Herman Mongrain Lookout, decided to create a distinct script by modifying or fusing ...
Osage has an inventory of sounds very similar to that of Dakota, also a Siouan language, plus vowel length, preaspirated obstruents and an interdental fricative (like "th" in English "then"). In contrast to Dakota, phonemically aspirated obstruents appear phonetically as affricates , and the high back vowel *u has been fronted to [y] .
Stoney—also called Nakota, Nakoda, Isga, and formerly Alberta Assiniboine—is a member of the Dakota subgroup of the Mississippi Valley grouping of the Siouan languages. [5] The Dakotan languages constitute a dialect continuum consisting of Santee-Sisseton ( Dakota ), Yankton-Yanktonai ( Dakota ), Teton ( Lakota ), Assiniboine , and Stoney.
Joseph Renville was descended from a long line of French Canadian voyageurs in the fur trade, including his great-grandfather Charles de Rainville (b. 1668) who was active in the peltry trade in Montréal from 1704; [5] his grandfather, Pierre Joseph de Rainville (b. 1713), who started out as a voyageur for Thierry and Company of Montréal and "winter[ed] for a year at Poste des Sioux on the ...
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.