Sioux languages

Original distribution area of ​​the Sioux languages ​​in North America

The Sioux languages (also commonly referred to as Dakota in American ; compare Dakhóta dialect ) form a genetic language family of North American indigenous peoples . Many of these languages ​​are considered endangered . In total there are around 25,000 people worldwide who feel they belong to this language family because of their mother tongue.

languages

An important language of this family is the Lakota language . In addition to the Dakota , Nakota and Lakota , which together are often referred to as Sioux , the following other Indian peoples belong to the Sioux languages:

• Absarokee
• Biloxi
• Catawba
• Dhegiha-Sioux
  • Kansa
  • Omaha
  • Osage
  • Ponca
  • Quapaw
• Hidatsa
• Iowa
• Mandan
• Oto
• Tutelo
• Winnebago

See also

• Language family
• Language families of the world

literature

• Ernst Kausen: The language families of the world. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 . (Chapter 12)

Web links

Scientific databases

• Sioux languages ​​in the Ethnologue (English)
• Sioux languages ​​in the World Atlas of Language Structures Online (English)

Popular science homepages

• North and Mesoamerican languages

Organizations

• Lakota Language Consortium (organization for the revitalization of the Lakota language) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Subdivision of the Siouan-Catawban language family (14) on ethnologue.com, accessed on August 2, 2015.