Keeping Lakota alive (fwd link)

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Keeping Lakota alive

Census Bureau lists these languages under the title “Dakota”:

Assiniboin
Brule
Brule Sioux
Da'catah/Dakota/Dakota Sioux
Hunkpapa/Hunkpapa Sioux
Lakota/Lakotah/Lakota Sioux
Nakota/Nakota Sioux
Oglala/Oglala Sioux
Santee
Teton
Yankton
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau
www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/about/index.html

Most common Native American languages

Navajo: 169,471 speakers
Yupik: 19,950 speakers
Dakota: 18,616 speakers
Apache: 13,063 speakers
Keres: 12,945 speakers
Cherokee: 11,610 speakers
Choctaw: 10,343
Zuni: 9,686
Ojibwa: 8,371
Pima: 7,270
Inupik: 7,203
Hopi: 6,634
Tewa: 5,176
Muskogee: 5,064
Crow: 3,705
Shoshoni: 2,211
Cheyenne: 2,156
Eskimo: 2,076
Tiwa: 2,009
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau

On a recent Tuesday, 5-year-old Jessie White Face hid her hands shyly in
the pockets of her pink jumper as she and 14 classmates recited "The Itsy
Bitsy Spider" - in Lakota.

Jessie and her classmates are part of a kindergarten through second grade
immersion school committed to reviving the Lakota language. Lakota is part
of the "Dakota" language group, the third most commonly spoken Native
American language in the country, but new Census estimates indicate fewer
than 19,000 people still speak it. More than 10,000 of the nation's Dakota
speakers live in South Dakota.


Read more:
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/keeping-lakota-alive/article_6f03e808-59fb-11e1-bb1e-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1ml04Qp9h
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