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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.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Lakota language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The Great Lakes Algonquian syllabary is a syllabic writing system based upon the French alphabet, with letters organized into syllables. It was used primarily by speakers of Fox , Potawatomi , and Winnebago , but there is indirect evidence of use by speakers of Southwestern Ojibwe ("Chippewa").
S̀ (minuscule: s̀) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from S with the addition of a grave accent. It is used in Ugaritic transliteration and the SICC orthography for the Dakota language, representing /ʃ/. [1] [2]
Sioux; Dakota, Lakota: Native to: ... Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States ... Prior to the introduction of the Latin alphabet, ...
Lakota activists such as Madonna Thunder Hawk and Chase Iron Eyes, along with the Lakota People's Law Project, have alleged that Lakota grandmothers are illegally denied the right to foster their own grandchildren. They are working to redirect federal funding away from the state of South Dakota's D.S.S. to new tribal foster care programs.
The alphabet is not used natively to write the language for which the Syriac alphabet is used instead. The letter is also used in Lakota, [13] Cheyenne, Myaamia [14] and Cree (in dialects such as Moose Cree), [15] Classical Malay (until end of 19th century) and some African languages such as Northern Sotho and Songhay.
By the time it was over, 25 troopers and more than 150 Lakota Sioux lay dead, including men, women, and children. It remains unknown which side was responsible for the first shot; some of the soldiers are believed to have been the victims of "friendly fire" because the shooting took place at point-blank range in chaotic conditions. [87]