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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Lakhota,Teton,Lakota
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Lakota (also Lakhota, Teton, Teton Sioux) is a Siouan languages spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. While generally taught and considered by speakers as a separate language, Lakota is mutually understandable with the other two languages, and is considered by most linguists one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language. The Lakota language represents one of the largest Native American language speech communities left in the United States, with approximately 6,000 speakers living mostly in northern plains states of North and South Dakota.
The language was first put into written form by missionaries around 1840 and has since evolved to reflect contemporary needs and usage.
Lakota has five oral vowels, /i e a o u/, and three nasal vowels, /ĩ ã ũ/ (phonetically [ɪ̃ ə̃ ʊ̃]). Lakota /e/ and /o/ are said to be more open than the corresponding cardinal vowels, perhaps closer to [ɛ] and [ɔ]. Orthographically, the nasal vowels are sometimes written with a following , , or , and sometimes with ogoneks underneath, .
The voiced plosives /b/ and /g/ should perhaps be considered allophones of /p/ and /k/, since for almost all words they are in complementary<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=513248 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Lakota Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="3" width=400 height=300 lat="40.423000" lon="-98.737224" type="map">
40.423000, -98.737224, United States</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Detailed Description:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lkt_detail-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_lkt_detail-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Orthography:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lkt_ortho-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_lkt_ortho-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lkt_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_lkt_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vernacular Text:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_lkt_vertxt-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_lkt_vertxt-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/united_states United States]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>lkt</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Siouan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Siouan Proper Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central Siouan Proper Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Mississippi Valley Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Dakota Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Lakota Language]]</b>
 
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