public_comment: " Sioux is the cover term for the varieties of the Dakotan dialect complex, with three well defined dialect areas: Stoney, currently spoken in southwestern Alberta; Assinibone, in southern Saskatchewan and northern Montana; and Sioux, spoken widely in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and in southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Intelligibility between these dialect areas is low, although speakers can communicate after a while with some difficulty, and they are perhaps best considered emergent languages. Sioux is further divided into three major dialects, Santee-Sisseton (Dakota), Yankton-Yanktonai, and Teton (Lakota), between which there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility.
Ethnologue distinguishes four Dakota languages: Assiniboine [asb], Dakota [dak], Lakota [lkt], Stoney [sto].
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ethnic_population: "19,280",
date_of_info: "1990, 1997",
public_comment: "Ethnologue distinguishes 4 Dakota languages: Assiniboine [asb], Dakota [dak], Lakota [lkt], Stoney [sto].
15,400 in US (1990 census), decreasing. 31 monolinguals (1990 census). 250 Yanktonais (1997 D. Parks); Census (2000) data may include Lakota. Population total all countries: 19,280. Ethnic population: 5,000 Yanktonais (1997 D. Parks); 20,475 (2000 census).",
public_comment: "Dakota [dak]: US: 100 (2016 W. Meya). Ethnic population: 170,000 (2016 Lakota Language Consortium). Includes all ethnic Sioux. Canada: 190 (2016 W. Meya). 2300 L1 speakers of all Sioux dialects in a total population of 175,000, of which 5,000 reside in Canada (2016 Lakota Language Consortium). Ethnic population: 5,000 (2016 Lakota Language Consortium). Includes all ethnic Sioux.
Lakota [ltk]: US: 2000 (1997 W. Meya). 2300 L1 speakers of all Sioux dialects in a total population of 175,000. L2 users: 100 in US (2016 W. Meya). Ethnic population: 170,000 (2016 W. Meya). Includes all ethnic Sioux. Total users in all countries: 2200 (as L1: 2,100; as L2: 100). Canada: 100 (2016 Lakota Language Consortium). Ethnic population: 5000 (2016 Lakota Language Consortium). Includes all ethnic Sioux.
Stoney [sto]: 3160 (2011 census). Ethnic population: 3200 (Golla 2007).
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