Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Words from the Sioux language, including Dakota and Lakota. Pages in category "Lakota words and phrases" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin ... The Lakota word for prayer, wočhékiye, means "to call on for aid," "to pray," and "to claim relationship with". [15]
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.
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 name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
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.
The Yuchi isolate may be the closest relative of Sioux–Catawban, based on both sound changes and morphological comparison. [9] In the 19th century, Robert Latham suggested that the Siouan languages are related to the Caddoan and Iroquoian languages. In 1931, Louis Allen presented the first list of systematic correspondences between a set of ...