Lakota language

See also: Lakota

The Lakota (or more correctly Lakĥoṫiyapi , language of Lakhotas ) is the principal dialect siouan among five what exists. The language belongs to the Langues siouan, it has the code ISO/DIS 639-3: lkt.

The Sioux name themselves: Oceti Śakowin , " seven feux" and are divided into seven tribes (Oglala, Sicangu, Miniconjou, Itazipco, Oohenunpa, Hunkpapa, and Sihasapa). The Indians lakotas live in both Dakota (Northern and Southern), distributed unequally in 4 reserves.

For the " small histoire" , Crazy Horse (Taśunka Witko) was Oglala, and Sitting Bull (Thathanka Iyothake) was Hunkpapa.

It is one of the American source languages comprising the greatest community of speakers still in life in the United States, with approximately 8000-9000 speakers, living mainly in the plains of north and the South Dakota.

The language, which did not have a clean writing, which was the case of the majority of the indigenous languages of North America, accepted for the first time a writing in 1840 by the missionaries, and has since good evolved/moved to adapt to the modern needs.

Example of sentence

Leci Franck eya (here it is Franck which speaks)

Colors

gi : chestnut
zi: yellow
its: red
luted: scarlet red

Numbers

wanji: a
nunpa: two
yamni: three
topa: four
zaptan: five

Spiritual vocabulary

The god-creator Wakan Tanka, the " large mystère" or the Great mind, whose spirit lived Inyan the " Rock " (the paramount rock which has all the capacities, of: ina " my mère" and: ini " my vie" , but also: wani, the vital breath), the first god whose blue blood created the goddess Maka (Earth) and water blue from which left the god Skan (Sky), father of the god Wi (Sun).

Songs lakota

Wakan Tanka unsimalaye makakigelo 2X

Dance of the sun

Oyate wamayanka Po 3X
Chanupa wakan cha
Yuha che wakielo he
Oyate wanipi kta cha
The cha mun welo
(Noncontractual Orthography)

Translation

Populate, look at to me 3X
I have the pipe sacrée
And by having it in main
I request with elle
I request so that the people live

Lakota drum

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