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Name: Sioux Type: Language Alternate Names: Dakota; Santee Spoken in: USA, Canada Number of speakers: 15,400 in United States (1990 census), decreasing. 31 monolinguals (1990 census). 250 Yanktonais (1997 D. Parks); Census (2000) data may include Lakota [lkt]. Population total all countries: 19,280. Ethnic population: 5,000 Yanktonais (1997 D. Parks); 20,475 (2000 census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 25675 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 20355 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: dak Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Siouan-Catawban (Siouan) Parent Subgroup: Dakotan; Dakota (dako) Child Dialects: Santee-Sisseton; Santee; Sisseton; Wahpeton; Dakota; Dakhota (dak-dak) Santee-Sisseton; Santee; Sisseton; Dakota (dak-san) Yankton-Yanktonai; Yankton; Yanktonai (dak-yan) Teton; Lakota; Lakhota (lkt) Teton (dak-tet) Brief Description: "Sioux is the cover term for the varieties of the Dakotan dialect complex other than Assiniboine and Stoney. Three Sioux dialect groups can be distinguished, from east to west: The Santee-Sisseton (Dakota) dialect is spoken in at least 15 widely dispersed reservation communities in Minnesota, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and in the eastern parts of Nebraska and the Dakotas. The Yankton-Yanktonai dialect is primarily spoken on the Yankton and Crow Creek Reservations in South Dakota, and on the northern part of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, although it also has speakers on the Devils Lake and Fort Peck Reservations in North Dakota and on a few reserves in Saskatchewan. Teton (Lakota) is the dialect of the Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Sisseton Reservations of South Dakota, as well as of the southern part of the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota and of the Wood Mountain Reserve in Saskatchewan. There are also substantial off-reservation communities of Sioux speakers, particularly in Rapid City, Minneapolis, and other urban centres in the upper Midwest. Together, there are nearly 25,000 first-language speakers of all Sioux dialects in a total population of 103,000. Of these an estimated 4,755 reside in Canada." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 22

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UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed