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Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi)
Native to: United States, with some speakers in Canada
Region: Primarily North Dakota and South Dakota, but also northern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, and northern Montana
Ethnicity Teton Sioux
Native speakers: 2,100, 29% of ethnic population (1997)
Language family: Siouan

Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Though generally taught and considered by speakers as a separate language, Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and is considered by most linguists as one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language.

Speakers of the Lakota language make up one of the largest Native American language speech communities in the United States, with approximately 2,000 speakers, who live mostly in the northern plains states of North Dakota and South Dakota. There is a Lakota language program online available for children to use. There is also a Lakota Language Program with classes for children at Red Cloud Indian School. The Red Cloud Indian School teaches Lakota as a second a language in the school with the help of the American Indian Research Institute at Indiana University.

The language was first put into written form by European-American missionaries around 1840. It has since evolved to reflect contemporary needs and usage.

LEARN MORE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakota_language
https://www.lakotadictionary.org/phpBB3/nldo.php
https://www.lakotadictionary.org/phpBB3/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.languagepal.lakotaandroid&hl=en&gl=US
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/lakota.htm
https://www.jw.org/

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