<font><font face="georgia,serif">Keeping Lakota alive<br><br>Census Bureau lists these languages under the title “Dakota”:<br><br>Assiniboin<br>Brule<br>Brule Sioux<br>Da'catah/Dakota/Dakota Sioux<br>Hunkpapa/Hunkpapa Sioux<br>
Lakota/Lakotah/Lakota Sioux<br>Nakota/Nakota Sioux<br>Oglala/Oglala Sioux<br>Santee<br>Teton<br>Yankton<br>SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau<br><a href="http://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/about/index.html">www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/about/index.html</a><br>
<br>Most common Native American languages<br><br>Navajo: 169,471 speakers<br>Yupik: 19,950 speakers<br>Dakota: 18,616 speakers<br>Apache: 13,063 speakers<br>Keres: 12,945 speakers<br>Cherokee: 11,610 speakers<br>Choctaw: 10,343<br>
Zuni: 9,686<br>Ojibwa: 8,371<br>Pima: 7,270<br>Inupik: 7,203<br>Hopi: 6,634<br>Tewa: 5,176<br>Muskogee: 5,064<br>Crow: 3,705<br>Shoshoni: 2,211<br>Cheyenne: 2,156<br>Eskimo: 2,076<br>Tiwa: 2,009<br>SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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.<br>
<br><br>Read more: <a href="http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/keeping-lakota-alive/article_6f03e808-59fb-11e1-bb1e-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1ml04Qp9h">http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/keeping-lakota-alive/article_6f03e808-59fb-11e1-bb1e-001871e3ce6c.html#ixzz1ml04Qp9h</a><br>
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